Exodus 16:13–22

¹³In the evening quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.^{* 14}When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the wilderness was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.^{* 15}When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”^b For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.^{* 16}This is what the Lord has commanded: Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer per person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” ¹⁷The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less. ¹⁸But when they measured it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed.^{* 19}And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over until morning.”^{* 20}But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it until morning, and it became wormy and rotten. And Moses was angry with them. ²¹Morning by morning they gathered it, as much as each needed, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

²²On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers apiece. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,^*