Exodus 16

¹And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came forth out of the Land of Ægypt.

²And all the assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moyses & Aaron in the wilderness.

³And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of our Lord in the Land of Ægypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and did eat bread our fill: why have you brought us into this desert, that you might kill all the multitude with famine?

⁴And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold I will rain you bread from heaven: let the people go forth, and gather that sufficeth for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or no.

⁵But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.

⁶And Moyses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel: At even you shall know that our Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Ægypt;

⁷and in the morning you shall see the glory of our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against our Lord. But as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?

⁸And Moyses said: At even our Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread your fill: for he hath heard your murmurings, which you have murmured against him, for what are we? Neither is your murmuring against us, but against our Lord.

⁹Moyses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole assembly of the children of Israel: Approach you before our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.

¹⁰And when Aaron spake to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold the glory of our Lord appeared in a cloud.

¹¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

¹²I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, say to them: At even you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

¹³Therefore it came to pass at even, & the quail rose, and covered the camp: in the morning also a dew lay round about the camp.

¹⁴And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

¹⁵Which when the children of Israel had seen, they said one to other: Man-hu! Which signifieth: What is this! For they knew not what it was. To whom Moyses said: This is the bread, which our Lord hath given you to eat.

¹⁶This is the word, that our Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it so much as sufficeth to eat: a gomor every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent so shall you take up.

¹⁷And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

¹⁸And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither he that gathered more, had above: nor he that provided less, found under: but every one gathered according to that which they were able to eat.

¹⁹And Moyses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

²⁰Who heard him not, but certain of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrefied. And Moyses was angry against them.

²¹And every one of them gathered in the morning so much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun waxed hot, it melted.

²²But in the sixth day they gathered double portions, that is, two gomors every man: and all the Princes of the multitude came, and told Moyses.

²³Who said to them: This is it which our Lord hath spoken: The Sabbath's rest is sanctified unto our Lord tomorrow. Whatsoever is to be wrought, do it: and the meats that are to be made ready, make them ready: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

²⁴And they did so as Moyses had commanded, and it putrefied not, neither was there worm found in it.

²⁵And Moyses said: Eat it today, because it is the Sabbath of our Lord: today it shall not be found in the field.

²⁶Gather it six days: but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of our Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

²⁷And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found not.

²⁸And our Lord said to Moyses: How long will you not keep my commandments, and my law?

²⁹See that our Lord hath given you a Sabbath, and for this cause on the sixth day he giveth you double portions: let each man tarry with himself, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

³⁰And the people kept the Sabbath on the seventh day.

³¹And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: which was as it were coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

³²And Moyses said: This is the word, which our Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto the generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the Land of Ægypt.

³³And Moyses said to Aaron: Take one vessel, and put Manna into it, so much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before our Lord to keep unto your generations:

³⁴as our Lord commanded Moyses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be reserved.

³⁵And the children of Israel did eat Manna forty years, till they came into the habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they touched the borders of the land of Chanaan.

³⁶And a gomor is the tenth part an ephi.