Exodus 16 · Parashat Beshalach

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinay, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Miżrayim.

And the whole congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el murmured against Moshe and Aharon in the wilderness:

and the children of Yisra᾽el said to them, Would we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Miżrayim, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Then said the Lord to Moshe, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will follow my Tora, or no.

And it shall come to pass, on the sixth day when they shall prepare that which they bring in; that it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

And Moshe and Aharon said to all the children of Yisra᾽el, At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Miżrayim:

and in the morning, you shall see the glory of the Lord when he hears your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that you murmur against us?

And Moshe said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening meat to eat, and in the morning your fill of bread; when the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

And Moshe spoke to Aharon, Say to all the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el, Come near before the Lord: for he has heard your murmurings.

And it came to pass, as Aharon spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra᾽el: speak to them, saying, At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp.

And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a fine flaky substance, as fine as the hoar frost on the ground.

And when the children of Yisra᾽el saw it, they said one to another, Man-hu (what is it?): for they knew not what it was. And Moshe said to them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an ῾omer for every man, according to the number of your persons shall you take it, every man for them who are in his tent.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

And when they did measure 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.

And Moshe said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

But they hearkened not to Moshe; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moshe was angry with them.

And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered a double provision, two ῾omer for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moshe.

And he said to them, This is that which the Lord has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the Lord: bake that which you will bake today, and what you will boil, boil today; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

And they laid it up till the morning, as Moshe commanded: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.

And Moshe said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath to the Lord: today you shall not find it in the field.

Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, on it there shall be none.

And it came to pass, that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, and they found none.

And the Lord said to Moshe, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my Torot?

See, that the Lord has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days: remain every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

And the house of Yisra᾽el called the name thereof Man (manna): and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

And Moshe said, This is the thing which the Lord commands, Fill an ῾omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Miżrayim.

And Moshe said to Aharon, Take a jar, and put an ῾omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.

As the Lord commanded Moshe, so Aharon laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did eat the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they did eat the manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Kena῾an.

Now an ῾omer is the tenth part of an efa.