Esodo 16:16-35

¹⁶'This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Gather of it each according to his eating, an omer for a poll; and the number of your persons, take ye each for those in his tent.'

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

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

¹⁹And Moses saith unto them, 'Let no man leave of it till morning;'

²⁰and they have not hearkened unto Moses, and some of them do leave of it till morning, and it bringeth up worms and stinketh; and Moses is wroth with them.

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

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

²³And he saith unto them, 'It [is] that which Jehovah hath spoken [of]; a rest — a holy sabbath to Jehovah — [is] to-morrow; that which ye bake, bake; and that which ye boil, boil; and all that is over, let rest for yourselves in charge till the morning.'

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

²⁵And Moses saith, 'Eat it to-day, for to-day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah; to-day ye find it not in the field:

²⁶six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day — the sabbath — in it there is none.'

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

²⁸And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'How long have ye refused to keep My commands, and My laws?

²⁹see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath, therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; abide ye each [in] his place, no one doth go out from his place on the seventh day.'

³⁰And the people rest on the seventh day,

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

³²And Moses saith, 'This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath 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.'

³³And Moses saith unto Aaron, 'Take one pot, and put there the fulness of the omer of manna, and let it rest before Jehovah, for a charge for your generations;'

³⁴as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.

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