16:1And they set out from Elim, and all the multitude of the sons of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month, after they went out of the land of Egypt. 16:2And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 16:3And the sons of Israel said to them: "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we were sitting over the pots of meat, and were eating bread to the full: why have you led us out into this desert, to kill the whole multitude with hunger?"
16:4But the Lord said to Moses: "Look, I will rain bread for you from the sky: let the people go out, and gather what suffices for each single day: so that I may test it, whether it walks in my law, or not. 16:5But on the sixth day let them prepare what they bring in: and let it be double what they used to gather on each single day." 16:6And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel: "In the evening you will know that the Lord has led you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord: for he has heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you have muttered against us?"
16:8And Moses said: "The Lord will give you in the evening meat to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: because he has heard your murmurings with which you have murmured against him: for what are we? 16:8Your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord." 16:9Moses also said to Aaron: "Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel: 'Come near before the Lord: for he has heard your murmuring.'" 16:10And when Aaron was speaking to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness: and look, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud. 16:11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: "I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel.
16:12Speak to them: 'In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread: and you will know that I am the Lord your God.'" 16:13So it came to evening, and the quail, coming up, covered the camp: in the morning too dew lay round about the camp. 16:14And when it had covered the surface of the ground, there appeared in the wilderness something small, and as if pounded with a pestle, in the likeness of hoarfrost upon the ground. 16:15And when the sons of Israel had seen it, they said to one another: "Manhu?" 16:15Which means: "What is this?" 16:15For they did not know what it was.
16:15To them Moses said: "This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. 16:16This is the word which the Lord has commanded: 'Let each gather of it as much as suffices for eating: a gomor for each head, according to the number of your souls who live in a tent, so you will take it.'" 16:17And the sons of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less. 16:18And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither did he who had gathered more have more: nor did he who had prepared less find less: but each gathered according to what they were able to eat.
16:19And Moses said to them: "Let no one leave any of it until the morning." 16:20And they did not hear him, but some of them left it until morning, and it began to swarm with worms, and it rotted: and Moses was angry against them. 16:21And they were gathering it in the morning, each one, as much as could suffice for eating: and when the sun had grown hot, it was melting. 16:22But on the sixth day they gathered double food, that is, two gomors for each person: and all the leaders of the multitude came, and told Moses. 16:23And he said to them: "This is what the Lord has spoken: 'The rest of the sabbath is sanctified to the Lord tomorrow: whatever is to be worked, do it, and what things are to be cooked, cook them: but whatever is left over, lay it by until the morning.'"
16:24And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not rot, nor was a worm found in it. 16:25And Moses said: "Eat it today, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: it will not be found today in the field. 16:26For six days gather it: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, for that reason it will not be found." 16:27And the seventh day came: and some of the people, having gone out to gather, did not find it. 16:28But the Lord said to Moses: "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my law? 16:29See that the Lord has given you the sabbath, and because of this on the sixth day he grants you double food: let each one stay at home; 16:29let no one go out from his place on the seventh day."
16:30And the people kept sabbath on the seventh day. 16:31And the house of Israel called its name Man: and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste like fine flour with honey. 16:32And Moses said: "This is the word which the Lord has commanded: 'Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept for generations to come hereafter: so that they may know the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when you were led out of the land of Egypt.'" 16:33And Moses said to Aaron: "Take one vessel, and put man in it, as much as a gomor can hold, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for your generations, as the Lord commanded Moses."
16:34And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept. 16:35And the sons of Israel ate man for forty years, until they came into a habitable land: with this food they were fed, until they touched the borders of the land of Canaan. 16:36Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.