出埃及记 16
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
以色列人在曠野發怨言
16 以色列全體會眾從以琳起行，在出埃及以後第二個月十五日，來到以琳和西奈中間汛的曠野那裡。 2 以色列全體會眾在曠野都向摩西和亞倫發怨言； 3 以色列人對他們說：“我們寧願在埃及地坐在肉鍋旁邊，吃飯吃到飽的時候，死在耶和華的手裡！你們倒把我們領出來，到這曠野，是要叫這全體會眾餓死啊！”
4 耶和華對摩西說：“看哪，我要把糧食從天上降給你們；人民可以出去，每天收取當天的分量，我好試驗他們是否遵行我的律法。 5 到第六天，他們把收進來的預備好，比每天收取的多一倍。” 6 摩西和亞倫對以色列眾人說：“今晚你們必定知道是耶和華把你們從埃及地領出來。 7 明早你們必定看見耶和華的榮耀，因為耶和華聽見了你們向他所發的怨言了。我們算甚麼，你們竟向我們發怨言呢？” 8 摩西又說：“耶和華晚上必給你們肉吃，早晨必給你們食物吃飽，因為耶和華聽見了你們埋怨他所說的怨言了。我們算甚麼？你們的怨言不是向我們發的，而是向耶和華發的。” 9 摩西對亞倫說：“你要對以色列全體會眾說：‘你們走近耶和華面前，因為他已經聽見了你們的怨言了。’” 10 亞倫對以色列全體會眾說話的時候，他們向著曠野觀望，看見耶和華的榮耀在雲中顯現出來。 11 耶和華吩咐摩西說： 12 “以色列人的怨言，我已經聽見了。你告訴他們說：‘黃昏的時候你們必吃肉，早晨的時候必有食物吃飽；這樣，你們就知道我耶和華是你們的 神了。’”
鵪鶉與嗎哪
13 到了晚上，有鵪鶉飛上來，把營都遮蓋了；到了早晨，營的四周有一層露水。 14 露水上升以後，就見野地上有細小鱗狀的東西，像小白霜一樣細小的東西。 15 以色列人看見了，就彼此對問說：“這是甚麼？”原來他們不知道那是甚麼。摩西對他們說：“這就是耶和華賜給你們吃的食物。 16 耶和華吩咐的話是這樣的：‘你們要按著各人的食量收取，按著你們的人數為帳幕裡的人收取，一人兩公升。’” 17 以色列人就這樣行了；有的多收、有的少收。 18 他們用升斗衡量的時候，多收的沒有剩餘，少收的也不缺乏；各人按著自己的食量收取。 19 摩西對他們說：“誰也不可把一些留到早晨。” 20 他們卻不聽摩西的話，有人把一些留到早晨，就生蟲發臭了。摩西就向他們發怒。 21 他們每天早晨都按著各人的食量去收取；太陽一發熱，就融化了。
22 到第六日，他們收取了兩倍的食物，每人四公升；會眾的首領都來告訴摩西。 23 摩西對他們說：“耶和華這樣說：‘明天是安息日，是向耶和華守的聖安息日。你們要烤的，就烤吧；要煮的，就煮吧；所有餘剩的要自己保存著，直留到早晨。’” 24 他們就照著摩西吩咐的，把餘剩的留到早晨；竟然不發臭，裡頭也沒有生蟲。 25 摩西說：“今天吃這個吧，因為今天是向耶和華守的安息日，今日你們在田野裡必找不著。 26 六天你們可以收取，但第七天是安息日，在那一天甚麼都沒有了。” 27 第七天民間有人出去收取，可是甚麼也找不著。 28 耶和華對摩西說：“你們拒絕遵守我的誡命和律法，要到幾時呢？ 29 你們看，耶和華把安息日賜給了你們，所以第六日他賜給你們兩天的食物；第七天你們各人要住在家裡，誰都不可離開自己的地方。” 30 於是人民在第七天都安息了。
31 以色列家給這食物起名叫“嗎哪”，它像芫荽的種子，色白，味道像攙蜜的薄餅。 32 摩西說：“耶和華吩咐的話是這樣：要把滿兩公升的嗎哪保留起來給你們的後代，好讓他們可以看見當日我把你們從埃及地領出來的時候，在曠野給你們吃的食物。” 33 摩西對亞倫說：“拿一個罐子來，裝滿兩公升嗎哪，存放在耶和華面前，保留起來給你們的後代。” 34 亞倫就照著耶和華吩咐摩西的，把嗎哪存留在法櫃前。 35 以色列人吃嗎哪共四十年，直到進了有人居住的地方為止；他們吃嗎哪，直到進入迦南地的邊界為止。 36 兩公升就是當時的標準量器的十分之一。（“兩公升就是當時的標準量器的十分之一”原文作“一俄梅珥就是一伊法的十分之一”）
Exodus 16
Living Bible
16 Now they left Elim and journeyed on into the Sihn Desert, between Elim and Mount Sinai, arriving there on the fifteenth day of the second month after leaving Egypt. 2 There, too, the people spoke bitterly against Moses and Aaron.
3 “Oh, that we were back in Egypt,” they moaned, “and that the Lord had killed us there! For there we had plenty to eat. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to kill us with starvation.”
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for them. Everyone can go out each day and gather as much food as he needs. And I will test them in this, to see whether they will follow my instructions or not. 5 Tell them to gather twice as much as usual on the sixth day of each week.”
6 Then Moses and Aaron called a meeting of all the people of Israel and told them, “This evening you will realize that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 7-9 In the morning you will see more of his glory; for he has heard your complaints against him (for you aren’t really complaining against us—who are we?). The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning. Come now before Jehovah and hear his reply to your complaints.”
10 So Aaron called them together and suddenly, out toward the wilderness, from within the guiding cloud, there appeared the awesome glory of Jehovah.
11-12 And Jehovah said to Moses, “I have heard their complaints. Tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat and in the morning you will be stuffed with bread, and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.’”
13 That evening vast numbers of quail arrived and covered the camp, and in the morning the desert all around the camp was wet with dew; 14 and when the dew disappeared later in the morning it left thin white flakes that covered the ground like frost. 15 When the people of Israel saw it they asked each other, “What is it?”
And Moses told them, “It is the food Jehovah has given you. 16 Jehovah has said for everyone to gather as much as is needed for his household—about two quarts[a] for each person.”
17 So the people of Israel went out and gathered it—some getting more and some less before it melted on the ground, 18 and there was just enough for everyone. Those who gathered more had nothing left over and those who gathered little had no lack! Each home had just enough.
19 And Moses told them, “Don’t leave it overnight.”
20 But of course some of them wouldn’t listen, and left it until morning; and when they looked, it was full of maggots and had a terrible odor; and Moses was very angry with them. 21 So they gathered the food morning by morning, each home according to its need; and when the sun became hot upon the ground, the food melted and disappeared. 22 On the sixth day there was twice as much as usual on the ground—four quarts instead of two; the leaders of the people came and asked Moses why this had happened.
23 And he told them, “Because the Lord has appointed tomorrow as a day of seriousness and rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord when we must refrain from doing our daily tasks. So cook as much as you want to today, and keep what is left for tomorrow.”
24 And the next morning the food was wholesome and good, without maggots or odor. 25 Moses said, “This is your food for today, for today is the Sabbath to Jehovah and there will be no food on the ground today. 26 Gather the food for six days, but the seventh is a Sabbath, and there will be none there for you on that day.”
27 But some of the people went out anyway to gather food, even though it was the Sabbath, but there wasn’t any.
28-29 “How long will these people refuse to obey?” the Lord asked Moses. “Don’t they realize that I am giving them twice as much on the sixth day, so that there will be enough for two days? For the Lord has given you the seventh day as a day of Sabbath rest; stay in your tents and don’t go out to pick up food from the ground that day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the food became known as “manna” (meaning “What is it?”); it was white, like coriander seed, and flat, and tasted like honey bread.
32 Then Moses gave them this further instruction from the Lord: they were to take two quarts of it to be kept as a museum specimen forever, so that later generations could see the bread the Lord had fed them in the wilderness, when he brought them from Egypt. 33 Moses told Aaron to get a container and put two quarts of manna in it and to keep it in a sacred place from generation to generation. 34 Aaron did this, just as the Lord had instructed Moses, and eventually it was kept in the Ark in the Tabernacle.
35 So the people of Israel ate the manna forty years until they arrived in the land of Canaan, where there were crops to eat. 36 The omer—the container used to measure the manna—held about two quarts; it is approximately a tenth of a bushel.
Footnotes
- Exodus 16:16 about two quarts, literally, “an omer.” The exact measure is not known.
Exodus 16
King James Version
16 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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