6. So Moses and Aaron said to the Israelites, “Tonight you will see the power of the Lord. You will know that he is the one who brought you out of Egypt.
7. You have been complaining about the Lord, and he heard you. So tomorrow morning you will see the Glory of the Lord. You have been complaining and complaining about us. Maybe now we can have a little rest.”
8. Then Moses said, “In the evening the Lord will give you meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. The Lord will do this because he has heard your complaining, which was against him, not us. What can we do? We do only what he tells us to do, so your complaints are really against the Lord.”
9. Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community of Israelites to come together before the Lord, because he has heard their complaints.”
10. So Aaron spoke to all the Israelites. While he was talking, the people turned and looked into the desert. And they saw the Glory of the Lord appear in a cloud.
11. The Lord said to Moses,
12. “I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. So tell them, ‘Tonight you will eat meat. And in the morning you will have all the bread you want. Then you will know you can trust the Lord, your God.’”
13. That evening, flocks of quail came and filled the camp, and in the morning dew lay on the ground all around it.
14. After the dew was gone, something like thin flakes of frost was on the ground.
15. When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, “What is that?” because they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “This is the food the Lord is giving you to eat.
16. The Lord says, ‘Each of you should gather what you need, a basket of manna for everyone in your family.’”
17. So that is what the Israelites did. Some people gathered a large amount, some people gathered a little.
18. But when they measured what they had gathered, there was no shortage and there was none left over. Everyone gathered just what they needed.
19. Moses told them, “Don’t save that food to eat the next day.”
20. But some of the people did not obey Moses. They saved their food for the next day. But worms got into the food and it began to stink. Moses was angry with the people who did this.
21. Every morning the people gathered as much food as they could eat, but by noon the food melted and was gone.