After the bitter water, the children of Israel were hungry. They murmured and complained, thinking they would rather be in Egypt with flesh and bread, so God gave them quail for one night and manna too. The manna tasted like wafers made with coriander and honey, so we made some.
After making the manna, we put some outside on a paper towel, took our containers, and gathered it in the morning.
Exodus 16:1-36
(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.
(2)
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness:
(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.
(5)
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.
(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:
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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.
(19)
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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(34)
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony,
to be kept.
(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.
