Exodus 16:4–35

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?” ⁸Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the Lord hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but ⁿagainst the Lord.”

⁹Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ^o‘Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.’ ” ¹⁰Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord ^pappeared in the cloud.

¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^12q“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ^r‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and ^sin the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

¹³So it was that ^tquails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning ^uthe dew lay all around the camp. ¹⁴And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was ^va small round ^wsubstance, as fine as frost on the ground. ¹⁵So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.

And Moses said to them, ^x“This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Let every man gather it ^yaccording to each one’s need, one ^zomer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.’ ”

¹⁷Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. ¹⁸So when they measured it by omers, ^ahe who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. ¹⁹And Moses said, “Let no one ^bleave any of it till morning.” ²⁰Notwithstanding they did not ²heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. ²¹So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

²²And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ²³Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is ^ca Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ” ²⁴So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not ^dstink, nor were there any worms in it. ²⁵Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. ^26eSix days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

²⁷Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. ²⁸And the Lord said to Moses, “How long ^fdo you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? ²⁹See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” ³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹And the house of Israel called its name ³Manna. And ^git was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

³²Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” ³³And Moses said to Aaron, ^h“Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.” ³⁴As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up ⁱbefore the Testimony, to be kept. ³⁵And the children of Israel ^jate manna ^kforty years, ^luntil they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.