Exodus 16:1–7

Bread from Heaven

16And they ^ajourneyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and ^bSinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. ²Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel ^ccomplained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. ³And the children of Israel said to them, ^d“Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, ^ewhen we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain ^fbread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather ¹a certain quota every day, that I may ^gtest them, whether they will ^hwalk in My law or not. ⁵And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and ⁱit shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

⁶Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, ^j“At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt. ⁷And in the morning you shall see ^kthe glory of the Lord; for He ^lhears your complaints against the Lord. But ^mwhat are we, that you complain against us?”