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Exodus 16
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Manna and Quail Provided

16Later, they left Elim, and the whole congregation of the Israelites came to the desert of Sin, which lay between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.H5265H362H5712H1121H3478H935H4057H5512H362H5514H2568H6240H3117H8145H2320H3318H776H4714
2The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert.H5712H1121H3478H3885H4872H175H4057
3The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt when we sat by the cooking pots, when we ate bread until we were filled - because you brought us to this desert to kill this entire congregation with hunger."H1121H3478H559H4310H5414H4191H3027H3068H776H4714H3427H1320H5518H398H3899H7648H3318H4057H4191H6951H7458
4The Lord said to Moses, "Listen very carefully! I'll cause food to rain down for you from heaven, and the people are to go out and gather each day's portion on that day. In this way I'll test them to demonstrate whether or not they'll live according to my instructions.H559H3068H4872H4305H3899H8064H5971H3318H3950H1697H3117H3117H5254H3212H8451
5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be double what they gather on other days."H8345H3117H3559H834H935H4932H3950H3117H3117
6So Moses and Aaron addressed the entire congregation of the Israelites, "This evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt,H4872H175H559H1121H3478H6153H3045H3068H3318H776H4714
7and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, for he has heard your complaints against him. After all, who are we that you complain against us?"H1242H7200H3519H3068H8085H8519H3068H5168H3885H3885
8Moses also said, "When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to satisfy you, the Lord will hear your complaints directed against him. Who are we - Your complaints aren't against us, but rather against the Lord."H4872H559H3068H5414H6153H1320H398H1242H3899H7646H3068H8085H8519H3885H5168H8519H3068
9Then Moses instructed Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the Israelites, 'Come near into the Lord's presence, because he has heard your complaints.'"H4872H559H175H559H5712H1121H3478H7126H6440H3068H8085H8519
10While Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the Israelites, they turned toward the desert, and there the glory of the Lord was seen in the cloud.H175H1696H5712H1121H3478H6437H4057H3519H3068H7200H6051
11The Lord said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559
12"I've heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you are to eat meat and in the morning you are to be filled with bread, so you may know that I am the Lord your God.'"H8085H8519H1121H3478H1696H559H996H6153H398H1320H1242H7646H3899H3045H3068H430
13Later that evening quail came up and covered the camp, and then in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.H6153H7958H5927H3680H4264H1242H2919H7902H5439H4264
14When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the desert a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost, appeared on the ground.H2919H7902H5927H6440H4057H1851H2636H1851H3713H776
15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, "What is it?", because they did not know what it was. Moses told them, "It's the food that the Lord has given you to eat.H1121H3478H7200H559H376H251H4478H3045H4872H559H3899H3068H5414H402
16"This is what the Lord has commanded: 'You are to gather from it what each person is to eat, about two quarts per person according to the number of your people, and one person is to gather for everyone in his tent.'"H1697H834H3068H6680H3950H376H6310H400H6016H1538H4557H5315H3947H376H168
17The Israelites did this, some gathering much, some little.H1121H3478H6213H3950H7235H4591
18When they measured it with two quart vessels, the one who gathered much did not have an excess, while the one who gathered little did not lack. They gathered exactly what each needed to eat.H4058H6016H7235H5736H4591H2637H3950H376H6310H400
19Then Moses said to them, "No one is to leave any of it until morning."H4872H559H376H3498H1242
20But they did not listen to Moses - some people left part of it until morning, and it produced maggots and smelled bad, so Moses got angry at them.H8085H4872H582H3498H1242H7311H8438H887H4872H7107
21Every morning they gathered it, according to what each needed to eat; and when the sun became hot, it melted.20H3950H1242H376H6310H400H8121H2552H4549
22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, about four quarts per person. Then all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses,H8345H3117H3950H4932H3899H8147H6016H259H5387H5712H935H5046H4872
23and he told them, "This is what the Lord said: 'Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and put aside whatever remains to be kept for yourselves until morning.'"H559H3068H1696H4279H7677H6944H7676H3068H644H644H1310H1310H3605H5736H3240H4931H1242
24They put it away until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not smell bad, and there were no maggots in it.H3240H1242H4872H6680H887H7415
25Moses said, "Eat it today, since today is a Sabbath to the Lord, and today you won't find it in the field.H4872H559H398H3117H3117H7676H3068H3117H4672H7704
26For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there won't be any."25H8337H3117H3950H7637H3117H7676
27Nevertheless, that seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.H3318H5971H7637H3117H3950H4672
28Then the Lord said to Moses, "How long will you people refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions -H3068H559H4872H3985H8104H4687H8451
29You see that the Lord has given you the Sabbath, and so on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. Let each person stay where he is; let no one leave his place on the seventh day."H7200H3068H5414H7676H5414H8345H3117H3899H3117H3427H376H376H3318H4725H7637H3117
30So the people rested on the seventh day.16H5971H7673H7637H3117
31The Israelites named it "manna." It was white like coriander seed, and tasted like a wafer made with honey.H1004H3478H7121H8034H4478H1407H2233H3836H2940H6838H1706
32Moses said, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Set aside about two quarts of it for future generations, so that they may see the food with which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"H4872H559H1697H3068H6680H4393H6016H4931H1755H7200H3899H398H4057H3318H776H4714
33Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, fill it with about two quarts of manna, and place it in the Lord's presence, to be preserved throughout future generations."H4872H559H175H3947H259H6803H5414H6016H4393H4478H3240H6440H3068H4931H1755
34So Aaron placed it before the Testimony to be kept, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.H3068H6680H4872H175H3240H6440H5715H4931
35The Israelites ate manna for 40 years until they came to a land where they could settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.H1121H3478H398H4478H705H8141H935H776H3427H398H4478H935H7097H776H3667
36Now two quarts is a tenth of an ephah.H6016H6224H374


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