Chapter 16 And they took their journey from Elam, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elam
and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month, after their departing out of
the land of Egypt.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron
in the wilderness.
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of
the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots,
and when we did eat bread to the full.
For ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly
with hunger.
Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for
you.
And the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove
them whether they will walk in my law or no.
And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which
they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, And even, then ye
shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt.
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord, for that he heareth
your murmurings against the Lord.
And what are we, that ye murmur against us?
And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the
evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full.
For that the Lord heareth your murmurings, which ye murmur against him.
And what are we, your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, Come near before the Lord, for he hath heard your murmurings.
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of
Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the
Lord appeared in the cloud.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the
children of Israel.
Speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be
filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up and covered the camp,
and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness
there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoarfrost on the ground.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna.
For they wished not what it was.
And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to
eat.
This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man according to
the number of your persons.
Take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
And when they did meet it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over,
and he that gathered little had no lack.
They gathered every man according to his eating.
And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto Moses.
But some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank.
And Moses was wroth with them.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating.
And when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread,
two omers for one man.
And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said.
Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord.
Bake that which ye will bake today.
And seethe that ye will seethe.
And that which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept until the
morning.
And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade.
And it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
And Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord.
Today ye shall not find it in the field.
Six days ye shall gather it.
But on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for
to gather, and they found none.
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my
laws?
See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath.
Therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days.
Abide ye every man in his place.
Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna, and it was like coriander
seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth.
Fill an ulmer of it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread
wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from
the land of Egypt.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an ulmer full of manna therein,
and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land
inhabited.
They did eat manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Now an ulmer is the tenth part of an ephah.
This
concludes Disc 4.