Exodus 16:19-36 ▼

19 And Moses said to them, “Let no man leave any of it until morning.”

20 But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

21 So they gathered it morning by morning, every man as much as he should eat; but the sun would grow hot, and it would melt.

22 Now it happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. Then all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.

23 And he said to them, “This is what Yahweh has spoken: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to Yahweh. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is in excess put aside to be kept until morning.”

24 So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.

25 And Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to Yahweh; today you will not find it in the field.

26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be none.”

27 Now it happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

28 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

29 See, Yahweh has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

32 Then Moses said, “This is what Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

33 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before Yahweh to be kept throughout your generations.”

34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony to be kept.

35 And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36 (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)