Exodus 16:16-36 ▼

16 This [is] the thing which YHWH has commanded: Gather of it, each according to his eating, an omer for the counted head; and the number of your persons, take, each, for those in his tent.”

17 And the sons of Israel do so, and they gather, he who is [gathering] much, and he who is [gathering] little;

18 and they measure with an omer, and he who is [gathering] much has nothing over, and he who is [gathering] little has no lack, each according to his eating they have gathered.

19 And Moses says to them, “Let no man leave of it until morning”;

20 and they have not listened to Moses, and some of them leave of it until morning, and it brings up worms and stinks; and Moses is angry with them.

21 And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating; when the sun has been warm, then it has melted.

22 And it comes to pass on the sixth day, they have gathered a second bread, two omers for one, and all the princes of the congregation come in, and declare [it] to Moses.

23 And he says to them, “It [is] that which YHWH has spoken: A rest—a holy Sabbath to YHWH—[is] tomorrow; that which you bake, bake; and that which you boil, boil; and all that is remaining, let [it] rest for yourselves for preservation until the morning.”

24 And they let it rest until the morning, as Moses has commanded, and it has not stunk, and a worm has not been in it.

25 And Moses says, “Eat it today, for today [is] a Sabbath to YHWH; today you do not find it in the field:

26 six days you gather it, and in the seventh day—the Sabbath—there is none in it.”

27 And it comes to pass on the seventh day, some of the people have gone out to gather, and have not found.

28 And YHWH says to Moses, “How long have you refused to keep My commands and My laws?

29 See, because YHWH has given the Sabbath to you, therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; each abide [in] his place, no one goes out from his place on the seventh day.”

30 And the people rest on the seventh day,

31 and the house of Israel calls its name Manna, and it [is] as white coriander seed; and its taste [is] as a cake with honey.

32 And Moses says, “This [is] the thing which YHWH has commanded: Fill the omer with it, for a charge for your generations, so that they see the bread which I have caused you to eat in the wilderness, in My bringing you out from the land of Egypt.”

33 And Moses says to Aaron, “Take one pot, and put the fullness of the omer of manna [in] there, and let it rest before YHWH, for a charge for your generations”;

34 as YHWH has given command to Moses, so Aaron lets it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.

35 And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna [for] forty years, until their coming to the land to be inhabited; they have eaten the manna until their coming to the extremity of the land of Canaan.

36 And the omer is a tenth of the ephah.