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And they
took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came unto
the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and
Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
02 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness:
03 And the children of Israel said unto
them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the
Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the
flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the
full; for ye have brought us forth into this
wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.
04 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I
will rain bread from heaven for you; and the
people shall go out and gather a certain rate
every day, that I may prove them, whether they
will walk in my law, or no.
05 And it shall come to pass, that on the
sixth day they shall prepare that which they
bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily.
06 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know
that the Lord hath brought you out from the land
of Egypt:
07 And in the morning, then ye shall see
the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your
murmurings against the Lord: and what are we,
that ye murmur against us?
08 And Moses said, This shall be, when the
Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat,
and in the morning bread to the full; for that
the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur
against him: and what are we? your murmurings are
not against us, but against the Lord.
09 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all
the congregation of the children of Israel, Come
near before the Lord: for he hath heard your
murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto
the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
that they looked toward the wilderness, and,
behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the
cloud.
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, 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 it came to pass, that at even the
quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the
morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up,
behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay
a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost
on the ground.
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 every man, according to
the number of your persons; take ye every man for
them which are in his tents.
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17 And the children of Israel did so, and
gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer,
he that gathered much had nothing over, and he
that gathered little had no lack; they gathered
every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it
till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto
Moses; but some of them left of it until the
morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses
was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning,
every man according to his eating: and when the
sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth
day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers
for one man: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that
which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is the rest
of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that
which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye
will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up
for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as
Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was
there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to
day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall
not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the
seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there
shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out
some of the people on 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 See, for that the Lord hath given you
the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth
day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in
his place, let no man go out of his place on the
seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name
thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed,
white; and the taste of it was like wafers made
with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which
the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be
kept for your generations; that they may see the
bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness,
when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot,
and put an omer full of manna therein, 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 And the children of Israel did eat manna
forty years, until they came to a land inhabited;
they did eat manna, until they came unto the
borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an
ephah.
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