¹³That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. ¹⁴When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost were on the desert ground. ¹⁵When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was.

So Moses told them, “This is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶The Lord has commanded, ‘Each one of you must gather what he needs, about two quarts for every person in your family.’ ”

¹⁷So the people of Israel did this; some people gathered much, and some gathered little. ¹⁸Then they measured it. The person who gathered more did not have too much, nor did the person who gathered less have too little. Each person gathered just as much as he needed.

¹⁹Moses said to them, “Don’t keep any of it to eat the next day.” ²⁰But some of the people did not listen to Moses and kept part of it to eat the next morning. It became full of worms and began to stink, so Moses was angry with those people.

²¹Every morning each person gathered as much food as he needed, but when the sun became hot, it melted away.

²²On the sixth day the people gathered twice as much food—four quarts for every person. When all the leaders of the community came and told this to Moses,

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