 1 They took their journey from Elim and all the congregation of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of sin that is between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed out of the land of Egypt. 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel grumbled+ against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The children of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we ate bread to the full. For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain bread from the heavens for you and the people will go out and gather a certain amount every day so that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the sixth day, they shall prepare what they bring in and it will be twice as much as they gather day by day. 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening, then you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt. 7 In the morning you will see the glory of the Lord. For He hears your grumblings+ against the Lord and who are we that you grumble+ against us? 8 Moses said, You will see when the Lord shall give you flesh to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, when the Lord hears your grumblings+ that you grumble+ against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings+ are not against us, but against the Lord. 9 Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord. For He has heard your grumblings+. 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And behold. The glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 12 I have heard the grumblings+ of the children of Israel. Speak to them saying, You will eat flesh at evening and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God. 13 That evening, the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning the dew lay all around the host. 14 When the layer of dew lifted, behold, there was a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the frost upon the ground. 15 When the children of Israel saw, they said each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is the thing that the Lord has commanded: Each man gather of it according to his eating, an omer for a head, according to the number of your souls. Each one shall take for those who are in his camp. 17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, and some less. 18 When they measured with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little lacked nothing. They gathered each one according to their eating. 19 Moses said, Let no one leave any of it until the morning. 20 But they did not listen to Moses and some of them left some of it until the morning, and it became rotten with maggots and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21 They gathered it every morning, each man according to his eating. And when the sun became hot, it melted. 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one. All the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 He said to them, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the Holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil. And what remains over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses said. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it. 25 Moses said, Eat that today. For today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you shall not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 Some of the people went out on the seventh day in order to gather and they did not find any. 28 The Lord said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day. Each one stay in his place. Do not let any one go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 31 The house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey. 32 Moses said, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations so that you may see the bread that I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 The children of Israel ate manna 40 years, until they came to a land in which people lived. They ate manna until they came into the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 An omer is the tenth part of a bushel.
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