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Chapter 16 |
| 1 | And they took
their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel
came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the
fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of
Egypt. |
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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: |
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3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
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| 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. |
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6 | And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of
Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the
land of Egypt: |
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7 | 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? |
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8 | 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. |
| 9 |
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. |
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10 | 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. |
| 11 | And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 |
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 hoar frost on
the ground. |
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15 | And when the children of Israel saw it, they said
one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto
them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | And the
children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. |
| 18 | And
when they did mete 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. |
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| And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the
morning. |
| 20
| 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. |
| 21 | And they gathered it every morning, every
man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. |
| 22 |
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. |
| 23
| And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath
said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which
ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth
over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. |
| 24 | And they
laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was
there any worm therein. |
| 25 | And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day
is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
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| 26 | Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the
sabbath, in it there shall be none. |
| 27 | And it came to pass, that
there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they
found none. |
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28 | And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to
keep my commandments and my laws? |
| 29 | 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. |
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30 | So the people rested on the seventh day. |
| 31 |
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. |
| 32
| And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD
commandeth, Fill an omer 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. |
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33 | And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot,
and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be
kept for your generations. |
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34 | As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron
laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. |
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35 | 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. |
| 36 |
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. |
