Exodus 16:13–22

¹³So it came about at evening that ^athe quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning ^bthere was a layer of dew around the camp.

^14aWhen the layer of dew ¹evaporated, behold, on the ²surface of the wilderness ^bthere was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

¹⁵When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “¹What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “^aIt is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

¹⁶“This is ¹what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man ²as much as he should eat; you shall take ^3aan omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’ ”

¹⁷The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little.

¹⁸When they measured it with an omer, ^ahe who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered ¹as much as he should eat.

¹⁹Moses said to them, “^aLet no man leave any of it until morning.”

²⁰But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

²¹They gathered it morning by morning, every man ¹as much as he should eat; but when the sun grew hot, it would melt.

The Sabbath Observed

^22aNow on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the ^bleaders of the congregation came and told Moses,