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Exodus - ch 16 v 1 - 20
- And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt.
- And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
- And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
- Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.
- And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.
- And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt:
- And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?
- And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
- And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.
- And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.
- And the Lord said to Moses,
- The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.
- And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.
- And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.
- And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.
- This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.
- And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.
- And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.
- And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.
- But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them.
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