Exodus 16:12-35

Bread from Heaven

12 "I z have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At a twilight you shall eat meat, and b in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"

13 In the evening c quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning d dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, e "What is it?" 1 For they f did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, g "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an h omer, 2 according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.'" 17 And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18 But when they measured it with an omer, i whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19 And Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it over till the morning." 20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and j it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

22 On k the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23 he said to them, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Tomorrow is a day of l solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.'" 24 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and m it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25 Moses said, "Eat it today, for l today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none."

27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses, n "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." 30 So the people o rested on the seventh day.

31 Now the house of Israel called its name p manna. It was q like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a r jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations." 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before s the testimony to be kept. 35 The people of Israel t ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till u they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 16:8
    And Moses said, "When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him - what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 16:6
    So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, "At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 16:7
    And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 11:31
    Then a wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.
    Psalms 78:27 - 28
    He rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas.
    Psalms 105:40
    They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 11:9
    When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 16:31
    Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:3
    And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
  8. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:3
    And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
    Exodus 16:4
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 16:36
    (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
  10. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 8:15
    As it is written, "Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 16:24
    So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 16:5
    On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 35:2 - 3
    Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
    Genesis 2:3
    So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
    Leviticus 23:3
    Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
    Exodus 20:8 - 11
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    Exodus 31:14 - 17
    You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 16:20
    But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 16:23
    He said to them, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord ; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.'
  16. Cross References
    Psalms 78:10
    They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
    Ezekiel 20:13
    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
  17. Cross References
    Luke 23:56
    Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
  18. Cross References
    Exodus 16:15
    When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 11:7 - 8
    Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
  20. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:4
    Having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
  21. Cross References
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    Exodus 25:21
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    Exodus 27:21
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    Exodus 30:6
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    Exodus 30:26
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    Exodus 30:36
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  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:2 - 3
    And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
    Nehemiah 9:20 - 21
    You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.
  23. Cross References
    Joshua 5:12
    And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
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