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chapter 16
1
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they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came
into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of
the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.
2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God
we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the
flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this
desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
4 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread
from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for
every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.
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 Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel:
In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the
land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning you shall see the glory of the
Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what
are we, that you mutter against us?
8 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you
flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your
murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your
murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.
9 Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole
congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard
your murmuring.
10 And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the
children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness: and behold the glory of
the Lord appeared in a cloud.
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 I have heard the murmuring of the children of
Israel: say to them: In the evening 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 So it came to pass in the evening, that quails
coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning, 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 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said
one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what
it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given
you to eat.
16 This is the word, that the Lord hath commanded: Let
every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat: a gomor for every man,
according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take
of it.
17 And the children of Israel did so: and they
gathered, one more, another less.
18 And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither
had he more that had gathered more: nor did he find less that had provided
less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.
19 And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof
till the morning.
20 And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left
until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, an it putrefied, and Moses
was angry with them.
21 Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as
much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much,
that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told
Moses.
23 And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath
spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever
work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them:
and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.
24 And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did
not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.
25 And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the
sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
26 Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the
sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
27 And the seventh day came: and some of the people
going forth to gather, found none.
28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse
to keep my commandments, and my law?
29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and
for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man
stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.
30 And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof
Manna: and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to
flour with honey.
32 And Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord
hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto 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 Egypt.
33 And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put
manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to
keep unto your generations,
34 As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the
tabernacle to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years,
till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they
reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
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