Exodus 16

And they set out from Ailim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Ailim and Sina, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

The whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.

And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died, struck down by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat beside the cauldrons of meat and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole congregation with famine.

And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I am raining bread upon you from heaven; and the people shall go out and gather the portion of a day for its day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare whatever they bring in, and it shall be double what they gather day by day.

And Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt;

and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, in that he has heard your murmuring against God. But what are we, that you murmur against us?

And Moses said, When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to the full, it is because the Lord has heard your murmuring which you murmur against us. But what are we? For your murmuring is not against us, but against God.

And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Draw near before God, for he has heard your murmuring.

And while Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness, and the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

I have heard the murmuring of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, Toward evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

And it came to pass in the evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning, as the dew settled round about the camp.

And behold, upon the face of the wilderness was something fine like coriander, white like frost upon the ground.

And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is this? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

This is the word that the Lord commanded: Gather of it, each one according to what is fitting for him, a gomor a head, according to the number of your souls; each of you gather for those of your tent.

And the sons of Israel did so, and they gathered, one much and one less.

And when they measured with the gomor, he who had much had nothing over, and he who had less had no lack; each gathered according to what was fitting for himself.

And Moses said to them, Let no one leave any of it until morning.

But they did not listen to Moses, and some left of it until morning; and it bred worms and stank, and Moses was angry with them.

And they gathered it morning by morning, each what was fitting for him; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

And it came to pass on the sixth day that they gathered double of what was needed, two gomor for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and reported it to Moses.

And Moses said to them, This is the word that the Lord spoke: Tomorrow is a sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord. Whatever you would bake, bake, and whatever you would boil, boil; and all that is left over, leave it in store until morning.

And they left some of it until morning, just as Moses had commanded them; and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it.

And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; it will not be found in the field.

Six days you shall gather, but on the seventh day is a sabbath, for on it there will be none.

And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long do you refuse to listen to my commandments and my law?

See, because the Lord has given you this day, the sabbath, therefore he himself gave you on the sixth day bread for two days; you shall stay each in your houses, and let no one go out from his place on the seventh day.

So the people kept sabbath on the seventh day.

And the sons of Israel called its name Man. It was like white coriander seed, and its taste was like a wafer in honey.

And Moses said, This is the word that the Lord commanded: Fill a gomor of the man for storage throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that you ate in the wilderness when the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take one golden jar, and put in it a full gomor of the man, and you shall lay it up before God, to be kept throughout your generations.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.

And the sons of Israel ate the man forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the man until they arrived at the region of Phoenicia.

Now the gomor was the tenth of the three measures.