Exodus 16:14-36

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁴ And when the dew that had fallen had lifted, behold, a small round flakey thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the frost upon the earth.

¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

¹⁶ “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: Every man gather from it according to his need (an omer per man, according to the number of your people). Every man shall take for those who are in his tent.”

¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

¹⁸ And when they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much, had nothing left over. And he who had gathered little, had no lack. So, every man gathered according to his eating.

¹⁹ Then Moses said to them, “Let no man save it until morning.”

²⁰ Nevertheless, they did not obey Moses. But some of them saved it until morning. And it was full of worms and stank. Therefore, Moses was angry with them.

²¹ And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. For when the heat of the Sun came, it melted.

²² And on the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread (two omers per man). Then, all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses.

²³ And he answered them, “This is that which the LORD has said, ‘Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you will bake today, and boil that which you will boil; and lay up all that remains, to be kept for yourself until morning.’”

²⁴ And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses instructed. And it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it.

²⁵ Then Moses said, “Eat that today. For today is the Sabbath to the LORD. Today, you shall not find it in the field.

²⁶ “Six days you shall gather it; but the seventh day is the Sabbath. On it, there shall be none.”

²⁷ Nevertheless, some of the people went out to gather on the seventh day; and they found none.

²⁸ And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My Commandments, and My Laws?

²⁹ “Behold, how the LORD has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, on the sixth day, He gives you bread for two days. Therefore, every man should remain 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 called the name of it “manna”. And it was like white coriander seed. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey.

³² And Moses said, “This is that which the LORD had commanded, ‘Fill an omer of it to keep for your posterity; so that they may see the bread with which I have fed you in wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

³³ Moses also said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer-full of manna in it; and set it before the LORD, to be kept for your posterity.”

³⁴ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

³⁵ And the children of Israel ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ (An omer is one tenth of an ephah).