Exodus 16:1-18 ▼

1 And they journeyed from Elim, all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and between Sinai, on the five and tenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

2 And all congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

3 And the sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh, when we ate bread to the full. For you? have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

4 And YHWH said to Moses, “Behold, I am raining down for you? bread from the heavens, and the people shall go out and gather the portion of a day in its day, so that I may test them whether they will walk in My law or not.

5 And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be double over what they gather day by day.”

6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “And you? shall know at evening that YHWH has brought you? out from the land of Egypt,

7 and in the morning you? shall see the glory of YHWH, in His hearing your? complaints against YHWH. And what are we, that you? grumble against us?”

8 And Moses said, “In YHWH giving to you? flesh in the evening to eat, and bread in the morning to the full, in YHWH hearing your? complaints that you? complain against Him. And what are we? Your? complaints are not against us, but against YHWH.”

9 And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before YHWH, for He has heard your? complaints.’”

10 And it came to pass as Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, that they turned toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of YHWH appeared in the cloud.

11 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘Between the evenings you? shall eat flesh, and in the morning you? shall be filled with bread, and you? shall know that I am YHWH your? God.’”

13 And it came to pass in the evening that the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew was lying around the camp.

14 And the lying of the dew went up, and behold, on the face of the wilderness a thin, flaky substance, as thin as frost on the earth.

15 And the sons of Israel saw it, and they said, each man to his brother, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that YHWH has given to you? for food.

16 This is the word that YHWH has commanded: ‘Let every man gather from it, according to the mouths of his eating, an omer for each person; to the number of your? souls, each man shall take for those who are in his tent.’”

17 And the sons of Israel did so. And they gathered—the one much, and the one little.

18 And they measured it with the omer, and he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Each man gathered according to the mouths of his eating.