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15 When Bnei-Yisrael saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?”[a] For they did not know what it was. Then Moses said to them, “It is the bread that Adonai has given you to eat. 16 This is the word that Adonai has commanded. Every man is to gather according to his needs, an omer[b] per person, according to the number of people per household. Each man is to take it for those who are in his tent.”

17 Bnei-Yisrael did so, and some gathered more, some less.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:15 Heb. Mah-hu, lit. “What’s that?”
  2. Exodus 16:16 About two quarts.