Exodus 16 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

3 For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

16This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.’ ”

17And the people of Israel did so; they gathered, some more, some less.

182 Cor 8.15. But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

19And Moses said to them, “Let no man leave any of it till the morning.”

20But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

21Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers apiece; and when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

23he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning.’ ”

24So they laid it by till the morning, as Moses bade them; and it did not become foul, and there were no worms in it.

25Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.

26Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is a sabbath, there will be none.”

27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

28And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

29See! The Lord has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days; remain every man of you in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

30So the people rested on the seventh day.

31Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

32And Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

33And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations.”

34As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony, to be kept.

35And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)