Exodus 16 The whole congregation of Israelites moved from Elim to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. This was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The whole congregation of Israelites moved from Elim to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. This was on the fifteenth day of the second month after they left Egypt. ² all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. ³ The Israelites said to them: "If only the LORD had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!" ⁴ the LORD said to Moses: "I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you. The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions. ⁵ And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days. ⁶ Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: »This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt. ⁷ and in the morning, you will see the glory of the LORD, for he hears your grumblings against the LORD, and what are we that you grumble against us?" ⁸ Moses said: "This will happen when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to eat in the morning. the LORD hears your complaints against him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD." ⁹ Then Moses said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before the LORD, for He has heard your grumblings. ¹⁰ While Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the Israelites, they turned toward the desert, and there the glory of the LORD was seen in the cloud. ¹¹ The LORD said to Moses, ¹² "I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites. Speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am the LORD your God.'" ¹³ Later that evening quail came up and covered the camp, and then in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴ After the dew had gone, the desert was covered with thin flakes that looked like frost. ¹⁵ When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat." ¹⁶ This is what the LORD has commanded: "Each man should gather according to what he can eat. You shall take two quarts for each person in your tent." ¹⁷ The Israelites did this, some gathering much, some little. ¹⁸ They measured it. Those who gathered much did not have too much. Some who gathered less did not have too little. Each had gathered just what he needed. ¹⁹ Then Moses said to them, "No one is to leave any of it until morning." ²⁰ Some of them did not listen to Moses and saved part of it. The next morning it was full of worms and smelled rotten. Moses was angry with them. ²¹ Every morning each one gathered as much as he needed. When the sun grew hot, what was left on the ground melted. ²² On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ²³ and he told them, "This is what the LORD said: 'Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and put aside whatever remains to be kept for yourselves until morning.'" ²⁴ And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded. And it did not stink and no maggot was in it. ²⁵ And Moses said, Eat that today, because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find it in the field. ²⁶ For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there won't be any." ²⁷ And it came to pass, that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, and they found none. ²⁸ Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you people refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions? ²⁹ You see that the LORD has given you the Sabbath, and so on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. Let each person stay where he is; let no one leave his place on the seventh day." ³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day. ³¹ The Israelites named it "manna." It was white like coriander seed, and tasted like a wafer made with honey. ³² And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. ³³ And 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 that it might be kept. ³⁵ The Israelites ate manna for 40 years until they came to a land where they could settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. ³⁶ Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.