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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 16 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/15.htm" title="Exodus 15">◄</a> Exodus 16 <a href="../exodus/17.htm" title="Exodus 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Bread from Heaven</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who brought you out of the land of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and in the morning you shall see the glory of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because he has heard your grumbling against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Moses said, “When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for he has heard your grumbling.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared in the cloud. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or It is manna; Hebrew man hu">a</a></sup></span> For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given you to eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An omer was about 2 quarts or 2 liters">b</a></sup></span> according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>he said to them, “This is what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; 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.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>See! The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So the people rested on the seventh day.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Moses said, “This is what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to be kept throughout your generations.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/16-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters">c</a></sup></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>"It is manna"</i>; Hebrew <i>man hu</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> An <i class="catch-word">omer</i> was about 2 quarts or 2 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> An <i class="catch-word">ephah</i> was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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