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1 The entire community of Israel left Elim and arrived in the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. It was on the fifteenth day of the second month, after they left Egypt.
2 In the desert, the entire community of Israel complained to Moses and Aaron.
3 The Israelites said to them, “If only the hand of the Lord had killed us in Egypt! There we sat around the meat pots and ate bread to our hearts' content, but you brought us to this desert to starve this entire crowd! “
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4 But the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain bread from heaven for them. The people will go out and collect daily the portion needed for that day. With this I will put them to the test to see whether or not they follow my instructions.
5 On the sixth day they will bring to be prepared twice as much as they collected on other days.”
6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “At evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt,
7 and tomorrow morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because the Lord has heard your complaint against him. Who are we that you should complain to us? “
8 Moses further said, “The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to eat in the morning, because he has heard your complaints against him. Who are we? You are not complaining about us, but about the Lord.”
9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the entire community of Israel to come before the Lord, for he has heard their complaints.”
10 As Aaron spoke to the entire community, everyone looked toward the desert, and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
11 And the Lord said to Moses:
12 “I heard the complaints of the Israelites. Answer them that at sunset you will eat meat, and at dawn you will be satisfied with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”
13 At the end of the afternoon, quails appeared and covered the place where they were camped; at dawn there was a layer of dew around the camp.
14 After the dew dried, thin frost-like flakes were on the surface of the desert.
15 When the Israelites saw this, they began to ask each other, “What is this? “, because they didn’t know what it was about. Moses said to them, “This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
16 This is what the Lord commanded: 'Each head of the family collect as much as he needs: a jar for each person in his tent' “.
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some collected more, others less.
18 When they measured with the jar, whoever had collected a lot did not have too much, and whoever had collected a little did not lack. Everyone collected as much as they needed.
19 “No one should save anything for the next morning,” Moses commanded them.
20 However, some of them did not pay attention to Moses and kept some until the next morning, but it grew nasty and started to smell bad. That's why Moses was angry with them.
21 Every morning everyone collected as much as they needed, because when the sun got hot, it melted.
22 On the sixth day they collected twice as much: two jars for each person; and the leaders of the community went and told Moses,
23 who explained to them: “This is what the Lord commanded: 'Tomorrow will be a day of rest, a Sabbath holy to the Lord. Bake and cook whatever you want. Save what's left until the next morning' “.
24 And they kept it until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell bad nor did it create any worms.
25 “Eat it today,” said Moses, “for today is the Sabbath of the Lord. Today, you will not find him on the ground.
26 For six days you can collect it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, you will find nothing. “
27 Despite this, some of them went out on the seventh day to collect it, but found nothing.
28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to obey my commandments and instructions?
29 See that the Lord gave them the Sabbath; and therefore, on the sixth day, he gives them bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone stay where you are; no one should leave.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The people of Israel called that bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like honey cake.
32 Moses said, “The Lord commanded them to collect a jar of manna and keep it for future generations, so that they may see the bread that I gave them in the wilderness when I brought them out of Egypt.”
33 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Put the measure of a jar of manna into a jar and place it before the Lord, so that it may be preserved for future generations.”
34 In obedience to what the Lord had commanded Moses, Aaron placed the manna next to the tablets of the covenant, to be kept there.
35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years until they reached a habitable land; They ate manna until they reached the borders of Canaan.
36 (The jug is the tenth part of an arroba.)
