Chapter 16
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And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out from the land of Egypt.
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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.
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And the sons of Israel said to them, "Who will give us death by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pot of flesh and ate bread to satiety? For you have brought us out to this wilderness to put this whole assembly to death with hunger."
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion day by day, so that I may test them, whether they walk in my Torah or not."
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And it will be that on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be double what they gather day by day.
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And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, "At evening, you will know that the LORD brought you out from the land of Egypt."
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And in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your complaints against the LORD. And what are we, that you complain against us?
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And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you flesh to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to be sated, it is against the LORD that you lodge your complaints, which you lodge in the LORD's hearing—what are we? Your complaints are not against us, for they are against the LORD."
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And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, 'Draw near before the LORD, for he has heard your complaints.'"
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And as Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned to the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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I have heard the grumbling of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, "Between the evenings you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be satisfied with bread, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God."
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And in the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
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When the layer of dew went up, there on the surface of the wilderness was something fine and flaky, fine like frost on the ground.
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And the sons of Israel saw it and said, 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 the LORD has given you to eat."
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This is the thing which the LORD commanded: Gather from it for each man according to his eating—an omer per head according to the number of your persons. Each man shall take for those in his tent.
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And the sons of Israel did so and gathered—the one gathering much and the one gathering little.
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And when they measured it by the omer, the one who had gathered much had no excess, and the one who had gathered little had no lack. Each gathered according to his eating.
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And Moses said to them, "Let none of it remain until morning."
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And they did not listen to Moses, and some men left some of it until morning, and worms came up and it stank, and Moses was angry with them.
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And they gathered it every morning—each man according to what he could hold, what he ate. And when the sun grew hot, it melted.
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And on the sixth day they gathered double the bread, two omers for one person. And all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.
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And he said to them, "It is what the LORD has spoken: a sabbath rest, a sabbath of divine sanctification to the LORD. Tomorrow, what you bake, bake, and what you boil, boil, and all the excess, put aside for yourselves for observance until the morning."
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And they left it until morning as Moses commanded, and it did not become foul, and no maggot was in it.
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And Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath rest to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field."
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Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any there.
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And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found nothing.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my Torah?"
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See that the LORD has given you the Sabbath rest; therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Rest in it; let no man go out from his place on the seventh day.
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And the people rested on the seventh day.
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The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer in honey.
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And Moses said, "This is the word that the LORD commanded: 'Fill the omer from it for safekeeping for your generations, so that they see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.'"
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And Moses said to Aaron, "Take one jar and put a full omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to keep it for your generations."
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As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the Testimony for preservation.
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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 edge of the land of Canaan.
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And the omer—a tenth of the ephah—is its measurement.