Exodus 16:16-36

16This is 1what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man 2as much as he should eat; you shall take 34an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’” 17The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little. 18When they measured it with an omer, 5he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered 6as much as he should eat. 19Moses said to them, “7Let no man leave any of it until morning.” 20But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. 21They gathered it morning by morning, every man 8as much as he should eat; but when the sun grew hot, it would melt.

229Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the 10leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23then he said to them, “This is what the Lord 11meant: 12Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and 13all that is left over 14put aside to be kept until morning.” 24So they 15put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and 16it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it. 25Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 2617Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be 18none.”

27It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28Then the Lord said to Moses, “19How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My 20instructions? 29See, 21the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day.

31The house of 22Israel named it 23manna, and it was like 24coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey. 32Then Moses said, “This is 25what the Lord has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33Moses said to Aaron, “26Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.” 34As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before 27the Testimony, to be kept. 3528The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36(Now 29an omer is a tenth of an 30ephah.)