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Exodus - ch 16 v 21 - 36
- Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
- But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.
- And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.
- And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.
- And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
- Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
- And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
- And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?
- See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.
- And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
- And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.
- And Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter, that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
- And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to keep unto your generations,
- As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.
- And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
- Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
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