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          DASV: Exodus 16    

1 Then they set out from Elim and the whole Israelite
community came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between
Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their leaving the land of Egypt.
2 The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness.
3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the
hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat,
when we ate bread till we were full, for you have brought us out
into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Look, I will rain down bread from
heaven for you; and the people will go out and gather a day's portion
every day. So I will test them whether they will walk in my law or not.
5 On the sixth day they should prepare what they bring in and it will
be twice as much as they gather on normal days."
6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "At evening you will
know that the LORD has brought you out of the land of Egypt.
7 In the morning you will see the glory of the LORD; for he has heard
your grumblings against the LORD and who are we that you should
complain against us?"
8 Then Moses said, "You will understand this when the LORD provides
you meat to eat in the evening and in the morning your fill of bread,
for the LORD has heard your grumblings that you grumbled against him.
Who are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the LORD."

9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the Israelite community, 'Come
near before the LORD; for he has heard your complaining."
10 As Aaron spoke to the whole Israelite community, they looked
toward the wilderness, where the glory of the LORD appeared in
the cloud."
11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
12 "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites, tell them,
'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be
filled with bread then you will know that I am the LORD your God."
13 That evening quails came and covered the camp, and in the
morning the dew covered the camp.
14 When the dew had evaporated there on the wilderness ground
was a fine flaky substance like a thin frost on the ground.

15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?"
For they did not know what it was. Then Moses said to them,
"It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat."
16 This is what the LORD has commanded, "Each one of you is to
gather as much as he needs. Two quarts per person according
to the number that are in his tent."
17 The Israelites did so and gathered some more, some less.
18 When they measured it by unit the one who gathered much had
nothing over, and the one who gathered little had no lack.
Each person gathered as much as they wanted to eat.

19 Then Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it until
the morning."
20 But they did not listen to Moses and some of them left part
of it until the morning, and it bred worms and began to stink.
So Moses became angry with them.
21 They gathered it morning by morning, every one according to
what he wanted to eat and when the sun warmed up, it melted.

22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts
for each one, and all the community leaders came and told this to
Moses.
23 Then he said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded, 'Tomorrow
is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you
want to bake and boil what you want to boil today and anything that
remains left over put aside for yourself until the morning.'"
24 So they set it aside until the morning, as Moses ordered,
and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.
25 Then Moses said, "Eat it today; for today is a Sabbath to the LORD.
Today you will not find it in the field.
26 Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day,
which is the Sabbath, there will be none."

27 On the seventh day, some people went out to gather it,
and found none.
28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse keep my
commandments and my instructions?
29 See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath. That is why he gives you
the food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you should remain
in his place, let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander
seed, white, and it tasted like wafers of honey.

32 Then Moses said, "This is the thing the LORD has commanded, 'Let a
two-quart pot of it be kept for coming generations, that they may see
the food with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you
out of the land of Egypt.
33 Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put two quarts of manna
in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for future generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron put it before the Testimony,
to be preserved.
35 So the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a
habitable land. They ate the manna until they came to the border
of the land of Canaan.
36 Now the two quarts, an omer, was about a tenth of an ephah."

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