Manna and Quail in the Wilderness

1 And they traveled from Elim, and the whole assembly of the sons of Israel came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they came out of the land of Egypt. 2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron in the desert; 3 and the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died before the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and could eat bread and be satisfied!⁠a Why have you brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger? 4 And the Lord said to Moses, Look, I will make bread come down to you from heaven; and the people shall go out and gather each day's portion on its day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. 5 And on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it shall be twice as much as they gather each day. 6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening 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 Glory of the Lord; for your complaints are heard before the Lord: and what are we, that you complain against us? 8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to the full, because your complaints against Him are heard before the Lord. For what are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the Memra of the Lord. 9 And Moses said to Aaron, Tell all the congregation of the sons of Israel to come near before the Lord; for your complaints are heard before the Lord. 10 And while Aaron was speaking with all the congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the desert, and look, the glory of the Lord was revealed in the cloud. 11 And the Lord spoke with Moses, saying, 12 The complaints of the children of Israel are heard before Me. Speak with them and say, At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. 13 And in the evening the quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning dew lay all around the camp; 14 and when the dew that had fallen had gone up, look, on the surface of the desert there was a fine, uncovered substance, as fine as frost on the ground. 15 And the sons of Israel saw it, and said to one another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is the word that the Lord has commanded: Let each man gather of it according to what he eats, an omer for each person, according to the number of your people; each man shall take for those in his tent. 17 And the sons of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, others less; 18 and they measured it with an omer, and whoever had gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever had gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he would eat. 19 And Moses said to them, No one is to leave any of it until morning. 20 But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and rotted. And Moses was angry with them. 21 And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he would eat; and when the sun grew hot, what was left on the surface of the field melted.

Manna and the Sabbath

22 And on the sixth day they gathered a double quantity of bread, two omers for each one: and all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he said to them, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath before the Lord. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and put aside all that is left over for yourselves, to be kept until morning. 24 And they put it aside until morning, as Moses had commanded; and it did not rot, and there were no worms in it. 25 And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath before the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 For six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none. 27 And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day; let each man stay where he is, and let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 And the people rested on the seventh day. 31 And the house of Israel named it manna; and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like cakes fried in honey. 32 And Moses said, This is the word which the Lord has commanded: Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, so that they may see the bread which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a jar, and put an omer full of manna in it, and place it before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the Lord commanded, so Moses did; and Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 And an omer is the tenth of three seahs.