Exodus 16:16–30

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,

²³then he said to them, “This is what the Lord ¹meant: ^aTomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and ^ball that is left over ²put aside to be kept until morning.”

²⁴So they ¹put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and ^ait did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.

²⁵Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.

²⁶“^aSix days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be ¹none.”

²⁷It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

²⁸Then the Lord said to Moses, “^aHow long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My ¹instructions?

²⁹“See, ¹the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day.