Exodus 16:4-7
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4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain (A)bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may (B)test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, (C)it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, (D)“At evening (E)you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7 and in the morning you shall see the (F)glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For (G)what are we, that you grumble against us?”
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Exodus 16:13-17
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13 In the evening (A)quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning (B)dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, (C)“What is it?”[a] For they (D)did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, (E)“It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an (F)omer,[b] according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17 And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less.
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- Exodus 16:15 Or “It is manna”; Hebrew man hu
- Exodus 16:16 An omer was about 2 quarts or 2 liters
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