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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we that you should grumble against us?” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’ ” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then the LORD said to Moses, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’ ” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’ ” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’ ” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.” |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So the people rested on the seventh day. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.” |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.) |
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