18. Then they measured it. The person who gathered more did not have too much, nor did the person who gathered less have too little. Each person gathered just as much as he needed.
19. Moses said to them, “Don’t keep any of it to eat the next day.”
20. But some of the people did not listen to Moses and kept part of it to eat the next morning. It became full of worms and began to stink, so Moses was angry with those people.
21. Every morning each person gathered as much food as he needed, but when the sun became hot, it melted away.
22. On the sixth day the people gathered twice as much food—four quarts for every person. When all the leaders of the community came and told this to Moses,
23. he said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded, because tomorrow is the Sabbath, the Lord’s holy day of rest. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil today. Save the rest of the food until tomorrow morning.”
24. So the people saved it until the next morning, as Moses had commanded, and none of it began to stink or have worms in it.
25. Moses told the people, “Eat the food you gathered yesterday. Today is a Sabbath, the Lord’s day of rest; you will not find any out in the field today.
26. You should gather the food for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day. On that day there will not be any food on the ground.”
27. On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather food, but they couldn’t find any.