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1 And they journey from Elim, and all the company of the sons  of Israel come in unto the wilderness of Sin, which [is]  between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second  month of their going out from the land of Egypt.
2 And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against  Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
3 and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died  by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by  the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have  brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to  death with hunger.'
4 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, I am raining to you  bread from the heavens -- and the people have gone out and  gathered the matter of a day in its day -- so that I try them  whether they walk in My law, or not;
5 and it hath been on the sixth day, that they have prepared  that which they bring in, and it hath been double above that  which they gather day [by] day.'
6 And Moses saith -- Aaron also -- unto all the sons of  Israel, `Evening -- and ye have known that Jehovah hath brought  you out from the land of Egypt;
7 and morning -- and ye have seen the honour of Jehovah, in  His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah, and what [are]  we, that ye murmur against us?'
8 And Moses saith, `In Jehovah's giving to you in the evening  flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety -- in  Jehovah's hearing your murmurings, which ye are murmuring  against Him, and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not  against us, but against Jehovah.'
9 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Say unto all the company of  the sons of Israel, Come ye near before Jehovah, for He hath  heard your murmurings;'
10 and it cometh to pass, when Aaron is speaking unto all the  company of the sons of Israel, that they turn towards the  wilderness, and lo, the honour of Jehovah is seen in the cloud.
11 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
12 `I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak  unto them, saying, Between the evenings ye eat flesh, and in  the morning ye are satisfied [with] bread, and ye have known  that I [am] Jehovah your God.'
13 And it cometh to pass in the evening, that the quail  cometh up, and covereth the camp, and in the morning there hath  been the lying of dew round about the camp,
14 and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of  the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the  earth.
15 And the sons of Israel see, and say one unto another,  `What [is] it?' for they have not known what it [is]; and Moses  saith unto them, `It [is] the bread which Jehovah hath given to  you for food.
16 `This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Gather  of it each according to his eating, an omer for a poll; and the  number of your persons, take ye each for those in his tent.'
17 And the sons of Israel do so, and they gather, he who is  [gathering] much, and he who is [gathering] little;
18 and they measure with an omer, and he who is [gathering]  much hath nothing over, and he who is [gathering] little hath  no lack, each according to his eating they have gathered.
19 And Moses saith unto them, `Let no man leave of it till  morning;'
20 and they have not hearkened unto Moses, and some of them  do leave of it till morning, and it bringeth up worms and  stinketh; and Moses is wroth with them.
21 And they gather it morning by morning, each according to  his eating; when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.
22 And it cometh to pass on the sixth day, they have gathered  a second bread, two omers for one, and all the princes of the  company come in, and declare to Moses.
23 And he saith unto them, `It [is] that which Jehovah hath  spoken [of]; a rest -- a holy sabbath to Jehovah -- [is]  to-morrow; that which ye bake, bake; and that which ye boil,  boil; and all that is over, let rest for yourselves in charge  till the morning.'
24 And they let it rest until the morning, as Moses hath  commanded, and it hath not stank, and a worm hath not been in  it.
25 And Moses saith, `Eat it to-day, for to-day [is] a sabbath  to Jehovah; to-day ye find it not in the field:
26 six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day -- the  sabbath -- in it there is none.'
27 And it cometh to pass on the seventh day, some of the  people have gone out to gather, and have not found.
28 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `How long have ye refused to  keep My commands, and My laws?
29 see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath,  therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two  days; abide ye each [in] his place, no one doth go out from his  place on the seventh day.'
30 And the people rest on the seventh day,
31 and the house of Israel call its name Manna, and it [is]  as coriander seed, white; and its taste [is] as a cake with  honey.
32 And Moses saith, `This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath  commanded: Fill the omer with it, for a charge for your  generations, so that they see the bread which I have caused you  to eat in the wilderness, in My bringing you out from the land  of Egypt.'
33 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take one pot, and put there  the fulness of the omer of manna, and let it rest before  Jehovah, for a charge for your generations;'
34 as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth  Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.
35 And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years,  until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna  they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the  land of Canaan.
36 and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.