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Exodus 16 📜 📕 ↷
Manna and Quail from Heaven
1 AND they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came forth out of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
2 And all the assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moyses & Aaron in the wilderness.📜💬📚
3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of our Lord in the Land of AEgypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and did eat bread our fill: why have you brought us into this desert, that you might kill all the multitude with famine?📜💬📚
4 And our Lord said to Moyses: Behold I will rain you bread from heaven: let the people go forth, and gather that sufficeth for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or no.📜💬📚
5 But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.📜💬📚
6 And Moyses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel: At even you shall know that our Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of AEgypt;📜💬📚
7 and in the morning you shall see the glory of our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against our Lord. But as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?📜💬📚
8 And Moyses said: At even our Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread your fill: for he hath heard your murmurings, which you have murmured against him, for what are we? Neither is your murmuring against us, but against our Lord.📜💬📚
9 Moyses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole assembly of the children of Israel: Approach you before our Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.📜💬📚
10 And when Aaron spake to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold the glory of our Lord appeared in a cloud.📜💬📚
11 And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:📜💬📚
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, say to them: At even you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.📜💬📚
13 Therefore it came to pass at even, & the quail rose, and covered the camp: in the morning also a dew lay round about the camp.📜💬📚
14 And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle like unto the hoar frost on the ground.📜💬📚
15 Which when the children of Israel had seen, they said one to other: Man-hu! Which signifieth: What is this! For they knew not what it was. To whom Moyses said: This is the bread, which our Lord hath given you to eat.📜💬📚
16 This is the word, that our Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it so much as sufficeth to eat: a gomor every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent so shall you take up.📜💬📚
17 And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, an other less.📜💬📚
18 And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither he that gathered more, had above: nor he that provided less, found under: but every one gathered according to that which they were able to eat.📜💬📚
19 And Moyses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.📜💬📚
20 Who heard him not, but certain of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified. And Moyses was angry against them.📜💬📚
21 And every one of them gathered in the morning so much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun waxed hot, it melted.📜💬📚
Sabbath Observed
22 But in the sixth day they gathered double portions, that is, two gomors every man: and all the Princes of the multitude came, and told Moyses.📜💬📚
23 Who said to them: This is it which our Lord hath spoken: The Sabbath's rest is sanctified unto our Lord tomorrow. Whatsoever is to be wrought, do it: and the meats that are to be made ready, make them ready: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.📜💬📚
24 And they did so as Moyses had commanded, and it putrified not, neither was there worm found in it.📜💬📚
25 And Moyses said: Eat it today, because it is the Sabbath of our Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.📜💬📚
26 Gather it six days: but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of our Lord, therefore it shall not be found.📜💬📚
27 And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found not.📜💬📚
28 And our Lord said to Moyses: How long will you not keep my commandments, and my law?📜💬📚
29 See that our Lord hath given you a Sabbath, and for this cause on the sixth day he giveth you double portions: let each man tarry with himself, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.📜💬📚
30 And the people kept the Sabbath on the seventh day.📜💬📚
Jar of Manna
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: which was as it were coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.📜💬📚
32 And Moyses said: This is the word, which our Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto the 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 AEgypt.📜💬📚
33 And Moyses said to Aaron: Take one vessel, and put Manna into it, so much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before our Lord to keep unto your generations:📜💬📚
34 as our Lord commanded Moyses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be reserved.📜💬📚
35 And the children of Israel did eat Manna forty years, till they came into the habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they touched the borders of the land of Chanaan.📜💬📚
36 And a gomor is the tenth part an ephi.📜💬📚
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