Exodus 16 (NET)

Exodus 16:1¹When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:2²The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:3³The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:4⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:5⁵On the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather every other day.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:6⁶Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:7⁷and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:8⁸Moses said, “You will know this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:9⁹Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community of the Israelites, ‘Come before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:10¹⁰As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:11¹¹and the Lord spoke to Moses,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:12¹²“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:13¹³In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:14¹⁴When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the wilderness was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:15¹⁵When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you for food.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:16¹⁶“This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:17¹⁷The Israelites did so, and they gathered—some more, some less.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:18¹⁸When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:19¹⁹Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:20²⁰But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:21²¹So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:22²²And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:23²³He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:24²⁴So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:25²⁵Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:26²⁶Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:27²⁷On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:28²⁸So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:29²⁹See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:30³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:31³¹The house of Israel called its name “manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:32³²Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:33³³Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:34³⁴Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the ark of the testimony for safekeeping.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:35³⁵Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 16:36³⁶(Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions