16:16 “This is what 9 the Lord has commanded: 10 ‘Each person is to gather 11 from it what he can eat, an omer 12 per person 13 according to the number 14 of your people; 15 each one will pick it up 16 for whoever lives 17 in his tent.’” 16:17 The Israelites did so, and they gathered – some more, some less. 16:18 When 18 they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.
16:19 Moses said to them, “No one 19 is to keep any of it 20 until morning.” 16:20 But they did not listen to Moses; some 21 kept part of it until morning, and it was full 22 of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them. 16:21 So they gathered it each morning, 23 each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt. 24 16:22 And 25 on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers 26 per person; 27 and all the leaders 28 of the community 29 came and told 30 Moses. 16:23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, 31 a holy Sabbath 32 to the Lord. Whatever you want to 33 bake, bake today; 34 whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
16:24 So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 16:25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area. 35 16:26 Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
16:27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing. 16:28 So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse 36 to obey my commandments and my instructions? 16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why 37 he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; 38 let no one 39 go out of his place on the seventh day.” 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 The house of Israel 40 called its name “manna.” 41 It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted 42 like wafers with honey.
16:32 Moses said, “This is what 43 the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it to be kept 44 for generations to come, 45 so that they may see 46 the food I fed you in the desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’” 16:33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.” 16:34 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony 47 for safekeeping. 48
16:35 Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.