12. I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God
13. And it came to pass in the evening, that quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round the camp.
14. And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.
15. And the children of Israel saw it, and said one to another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
16. This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Gather of it every man according to what he can eat, an omer a poll, according to the number of your persons: ye shall take every man for those that are in his tent.
17. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little.
18. And they measured with the omer: then he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little wanted nothing: they had gathered every man according to the measure of his eating.
19. And Moses said to them, Let no man leave any of it until the morning.
20. But they did not hearken to Moses; and some men left of it until the morning; then worms bred in it and it stank. And Moses was wroth with them.
21. And they gathered it every morning, every man as much as he could eat; and when the sun became hot, it melted.
22. And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses.
23. And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has said: To-morrow is the rest, the holy sabbath, of Jehovah: bake what ye will bake, and cook what ye will cook; and lay up for yourselves all that remains over, to be kept for the morning.
24. And they laid it up for the morning, as Moses had commanded; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
25. And Moses said, Eat it to-day; for to-day is sabbath to Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
26. Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day is sabbath: on it there shall be none.
27. And it came to pass on the seventh day that there went out some from the people to gather it, and they found none.
28. And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
29. See, for Jehovah hath given you the sabbath; therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide every man in his place: let no man go from his place on the seventh day.
30. And the people rested on the seventh day.
31. And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey.