Bible Reading
March 6
The World English Bible
Mar.
6
Exodus
16
Exo
16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of
the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exo
16:2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Exo
16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we
had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us
out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
Exo
16:4 Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky 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.
Exo
16:5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare
that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily."
Exo
16:6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At
evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the
land of Egypt;
Exo
16:7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh;
because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you
murmur against us?"
Exo
16:8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the
evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh
hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we?
Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
Exo
16:9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the
children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your
murmurings.' "
Exo
16:10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and
behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
Exo
16:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
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
Yahweh your God.' "
Exo
16:13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
Exo
16:14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the
wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
Exo
16:15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
"What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said
to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."
Exo
16:16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of
it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the
number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who
are in his tent."
Exo
16:17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some
less.
Exo
16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had
nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered
every man according to his eating.
Exo
16:19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the
morning."
Exo
16:20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them
left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and
Moses was angry with them.
Exo
16:21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his
eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
Exo
16:22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation
came and told Moses.
Exo
16:23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken,
'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which
you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that
remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.' "
Exo
16:24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it
didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
Exo
16:25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to
Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
Exo
16:26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
Exo
16:27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went
out to gather, and they found none.
Exo
16:28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my
commandments and my laws?
Exo
16:29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he
gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in
his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
Exo
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exo
16:31 The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like
coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exo
16:32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your
generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.' "
Exo
16:33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of
manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your
generations."
Exo
16:34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept.
Exo
16:35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they
came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the
borders of the land of Canaan.
Exo
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
