1. Having set out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
2. Here in the wilderness the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
3. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!”
4. Then the Lord said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not.
5. On the sixth day, however, when they prepare what they bring in, let it be twice as much as they gather on the other days.
6. So Moses and Aaron told all the Israelites, “At evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
7. and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, when he hears your grumbling against him. But who are we that you should grumble against us?”
8. And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and in the morning your fill of bread, and hears the grumbling you utter against him, who then are we? Your grumbling is not against us, but against the Lord.”
9. Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole Israelite community: Approach the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.”