Exodus 16:13-36

21st Century King James Version

¹³ And it came to pass that at evening 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 had gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoarfrost on the ground.

¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is this?” For they knew 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 those who are in his tents.’”

¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less.

¹⁸ And when they measured 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 any of it until the morning.”

²⁰ Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left part 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: ‘Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake today, and boil what ye will boil; and that which remaineth over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

²⁴ And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

²⁵ And Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord. Today 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 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 the Lord hath given you the Sabbath; therefore He giveth you on the sixth day the bread for 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 with 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 ate manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ Now an omer is a tenth part of an ephah.