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Exodus 16:11-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

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