LEB - Exodus - 16

16:1  And they set out from Elim, and all the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟ came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim ⌞and Sinai⌟, in the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt.

16:2  And all the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟ grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert.

16:3  And the ⌞Israelites⌟ said to them, “⌞If only we had died⌟ by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread ⌞until we were full⌟, because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger.”

16:4  And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not?

16:5  And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day.”

16:6  And Moses and Aaron said to all the ⌞Israelites⌟, “In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt,

16:7  and in the morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, ⌞for he hears⌟ your grumblings against Yahweh, and what are we that you grumble against us?”

16:8  And Moses said, “When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning ⌞to fill up on⌟, ⌞for he hears⌟ your grumblings that you grumble against him—and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh.”

16:9  And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟, ‘Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.’ ”

16:10  And at the moment of Aaron’s speaking to all the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟, they turned to the desert, ⌞and just then⌟ the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

16:11  And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

16:12  “I have heard the grumblings of the ⌞Israelites⌟. Speak to them, saying, ‘⌞At twilight⌟ you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

16:13  And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp.

16:14  And the layer of dew came up, ⌞and there⌟ on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground.

16:15  And the ⌞Israelites⌟ saw, and they said ⌞to each other⌟, “What is this?” because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food.

16:16  This is the word that Yahweh commanded, ‘Gather from it, ⌞each according to what he can eat⌟, an omer per person according to the number of you. You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.’ ”

16:17  And the ⌞Israelites⌟ did so, and they gathered, some more and some less.

16:18  And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered ⌞each according to what he could eat⌟.

16:19  And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.”

16:20  But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

16:21  And they gathered it morning by morning, ⌞each according to what he could eat⌟, and it melted when the sun was hot.

16:22  And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

16:23  And he said to them, “This is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow is a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning.”

16:24  And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it.

16:25  And Moses said, “Eat it today, because today is a Sabbath for Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the field.

16:26  Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be present on it.”

16:27  And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they did not find any.

16:28  And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commands and my laws?

16:29  See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, ⌞each in his location⌟; let no one go from his place on the seventh day.”

16:30  And the people rested on the seventh day.

16:31  And the house of Israel called its name “manna.” And it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer with honey.

16:32  And Moses said, “This is the word that Yahweh has commanded. ‘A full omer of it is for safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the bread that I fed you in the desert when I brought you from the land of Egypt.’ ”

16:33  And Moses said to Aaron, “Take one jar and put there a full omer of manna. Leave it before Yahweh for safekeeping for your generations.”

16:34  As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping.

16:35  And the ⌞Israelites⌟ ate the manna forty years, until their coming to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan.

16:36  (And an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)