19. Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
20. But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.
21. So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.
22. And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.
23. He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
24. So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.
25. Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area.
26. Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
27. On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.
28. So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
29. See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30. So the people rested on the seventh day.
31. The house of Israel called its name “manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.
32. Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”
33. Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”
34. Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.
35. Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
36. (Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)