Search the Bible
Chapter
Verse
Exodus - ch 16 v 21 - 36
- And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating; when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.
- 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.
- 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.'
- 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.
- And Moses saith, `Eat it to-day, for to-day `is' a sabbath to Jehovah; to-day ye find it not in the field:
- six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day -- the sabbath -- in it there is none.'
- And it cometh to pass on the seventh day, some of the people have gone out to gather, and have not found.
- And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `How long have ye refused to keep My commands, and My laws?
- 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.'
- And the people rest on the seventh day,
- 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.
- 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.'
- 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;'
- as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.
- 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.
- and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.
© 2007, ChristianWebResources.co.uk