Exodus Chapter 16

Exodus Chapter 16
1 Afterward all the Congregation of the
children of Israel departed from Elim,
and came to the wilderness of Sin,
(which is between Elim and Sinai) the
fifteenth day of the second month after
their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2
And the whole Congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron in the
wilderness.
3 For the children of Israel said to them,
Oh 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 our
bellies full: for ye have brought us out
into this wilderness, to kill this whole
company with famine.
4 Then said the Lord unto Moses,
Behold, I will cause bread to rain from
heaven to you, and the people shall go
out, and gather that that is sufficient for
every day, that I may prove them,
whether they will walk in my law or no.
5 But the sixth day they shall prepare
that, which they shall bring home, and it
shall be twice as much as they gather
daily.
6 Then Moses and Aaron said unto all
the children of Israel, At even ye shall
know, that the Lord brought you out of
the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning ye shall see the
glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your
grudgings against the Lord: and what are
we that ye have murmured against us?
8 Again Moses said, At even shall the
Lord give you flesh to eat, and in the
morning your fill of bread: for the Lord
hath heard your murmurings, which ye
murmur against him: for what are we?
Your murmurings are not against us, but
against the Lord.
9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say unto all
the congregation of the children of
Israel, Draw near before the Lord: for he
hath heard your murmurings. 10 Now as
Aaron spake unto the whole
congregation of the children of Israel,
they looked toward the wilderness, and
behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in
a cloud.
11 (For the Lord had spoken unto
Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel: tell them therefore,
and say, At even ye shall eat flesh, and
in the morning ye shall be filled with
bread, and ye shall know that I am the
Lord your God)
13 And so at even the quails came and
covered the camp: and in the morning the
dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that was fallen
was ascended, behold, a small round
thing was upon the face of the
wilderness, small as the hoar frost on the
earth.
15 And when the children of Israel saw
it, they said one to another, It is
MANNA, for they wist not what it was.
And Moses said unto them, This is the
bread which the Lord hath given you to
eat.
16 This is the thing which the Lord hath
commanded: gather of it every man
according to his eating an omer for a
man according to the number of your
persons: every man shall take for them
which are in his tent.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and
gathered, some more, some less. 18 And
when they did measure it with an omer,
he that had gathered much, had nothing
over, and he that had gathered little, had
no lack: so every man gathered
according to his eating.
19 Moses then said unto them, Let no
man reserve thereof till morning.
20Notwithstanding they obeyed not
Moses: but some of them reserved of it
till morning, and it was full of worms,
and stank: therefore Moses was angry
with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning,
every man according to his eating: for
when the heat of the sun came, it was
melted.
22 And the sixth day they gathered twice
so much bread, two omers for one man:
then all the rulers of the congregation
came and told Moses. 23 And he
answered them, This is that, which the
Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of
the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that
today which ye will bake, and seethe
that which ye will seethe, and all that
remaineth, lay it up to be kept till the
morning for you.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as
Moses bade, and it stank not, neither
was there any worm therein.
25 Then Moses said, Eat that today: for
today is the Sabbath unto the Lord: today
ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days shall ye gather it, but in the
seventh day is the Sabbath: in it there
shall be none.
27 Notwithstanding, there went out some
of the people in the seventh day for to
gather, and they found none.
28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep my
commandments, and my laws?
29 Behold, how the Lord hath given you
the Sabbath: therefore he giveth you the
sixth day bread for two days: tarry
therefore every man in his place: let no
man go out of his place the seventh day.
30 So the people rested the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the
name of it, MANNA. And it was like to
coriander seed, but white: and the taste
of it was like unto wafers made with
honey.
32 And Moses said, This is that which
the Lord hath commanded, Fill an omer
of it, to keep it for your posterity: that
they may see the bread wherewith I have
fed you in wilderness, when I brought
you out of the land of Egypt. 33 Moses
also said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an
omer full of manna therein, and set it
before the Lord to be kept for your
posterity. 34 As the Lord commanded
Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat
manna forty years, until they came unto a
land inhabited: they did eat manna until
they came to the borders of the land of
Canaan.
36 The omer is the tenth part of the
ephah.