Manna from Heaven – Exodus – The Brick Bible

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Setting out from Elim, the whole community of Israelites entered the desert of Sin on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.

1 of 19 Exodus 16:1

And the whole community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert and said to them, 'Why did we not die at Yahweh's hand in Egypt, where we used to sit round the flesh pots and could eat to our heart's content? As it is, you have lead us into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death!'

2 of 19 Exodus 16:2–3

Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people must go out and collect their ration for the day. On the sixth day, however, this must be twice as much as they collect on ordinary days.'

3 of 19 Exodus 16:4–5

The next morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine and granular.

4 of 19 Exodus 16:13–14

As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that?' not knowing what it was.

5 of 19 Exodus 16:15

'That,' Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat, for Yahweh has heard your complaints about him.'

6 of 19 Exodus 16:15,8

'These are Yahweh's orders: Each of you must collect as much as he needs to eat -- a homer per head for each person in his tent.'

7 of 19 Exodus 16:16

The Israelites did this. They collected it, some more, some less.

8 of 19 Exodus 16:17

When they measured out what they had collected by the homer, no one who had collected more had too much, and no one who had collected less had too little.'

9 of 19 Exodus 16:18

Moses then said, 'No one may keep any of it for tomorrow.'

10 of 19 Exodus 16:19

But some of them took no notice of Moses and kept part of it for the following day.

11 of 19 Exodus 16:20

And it bred maggots and smelled foul, and Moses was angry with them.

12 of 19 Exodus 16:20

Now on the sixth day they collected twice the amount of food: two homer per person. Moses said, 'For six days you will collect, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.'

13 of 19 Exodus 16:22,25

So as Moses ordered, they put it aside for the following day, and its smell was not foul, nor were there maggots in it.

14 of 19 Exodus 16:24

On the seventh day some of the people went out to collect it, but found none.

15 of 19 Exodus 16:27

Yahweh then said to Moses, 'How much longer will you refuse to obey my commandments and laws?'

16 of 19 Exodus 16:28

The House of Israel named it 'manna'. It was like corriander seed. It was white and its taste was like that of wafers made with honey.

17 of 19 Exodus 16:31

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, up to the time they reached inhabited country. They ate manna up to the time they reached the frontiers of Canaan.

18 of 19 Exodus 16:35

A homer is one-tenth of an Ephah.

19 of 19 Exodus 16:36

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