Exodus:16:4-36
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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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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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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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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 .
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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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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 .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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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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 .
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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 .
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And the children of Israel did so ,
and gathered ,
some more ,
some less .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they gathered it every morning ,
every man according to his eating :
and when the sun waxed hot ,
it melted .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they laid it up till the morning ,
as Moses bade :
and it did not stink ,
neither was there any worm therein .
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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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Six days ye shall gather it ;
but on the seventh day ,
which is the sabbath ,
in it there shall be none .
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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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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws ?
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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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So the people rested on the seventh day .
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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 .
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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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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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As the LORD commanded Moses ,
so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony ,
to be kept .
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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 .
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Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah .