Moses · Issue #11 of 19
Bread From Heaven
Exodus 16:11–31 · World English Bible
Exodus 16:11
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Exodus 16:12
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’
Exodus 16:13
In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
Exodus 16:14
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
Exodus 16:15
When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another,
What is it?
For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them,
It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
Exodus 16:16
This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”
Exodus 16:17
The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
Exodus 16:18
When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating.
Exodus 16:19
Moses said to them,
Let no one leave of it until the morning.
Exodus 16:20
Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
Exodus 16:21
They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
Exodus 16:22
On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Exodus 16:23
He said to them,
This is that which the LORD has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’
Exodus 16:24
They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
Exodus 16:25
Moses said,
Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.
Exodus 16:26
Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
Exodus 16:27
On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
Exodus 16:28
The LORD said to Moses,
How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exodus 16:29
Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:31
The house of Israel called its name
Manna
, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
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