have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill
this whole assembly with hunger.”
4 Then said Yahweh to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for
you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I
may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. 5 It shall come
to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in,
and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, then
you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because
he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur
against us?” 8 Moses said, “Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the
evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your
murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings
are not against us, but against Yahweh.” 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all
the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before Yahweh, for he
has heard your murmurings.’” 10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat
meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”
13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in
the morning the dew lay around the camp. 14 When the dew that lay had
gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small
as the hoar-frost on the ground. 15 When the children of Israel saw it,
they said one to another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.”
16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it
everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of
your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his
tent.” 17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some
less. 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had
nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man
according to his eating. 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it
until the morning.” 20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but
some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became
foul: and Moses was angry with them. 21 They gathered it morning by
morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 It happened that 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 He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken,
‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which
you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all
that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.”
24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t become
foul, neither was there any worm in it. 25 Moses said, “Eat that today,
for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the
field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath. In it there shall be none.” 27 It happened on the seventh day,
that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. 28 Yahweh
said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my
laws? 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he
gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place.
Let no 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,*1 and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was
like wafers with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that
they may see the bread with which I 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 Yahweh, to be kept
throughout your generations.” 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid
it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 The children of Israel ate the
manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna
until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is
the tenth part of an ephah.
1 “Mana” means
“What is it?”
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