8. Moses said, “You will know this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”
9. Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole community of the Israelites, ‘Come before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.’”
10. As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud,
11. and the Lord spoke to Moses:
12. “I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’”
13. In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.
14. When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.
15. When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you for food.
16. “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”
17. The Israelites did so, and they gathered – some more, some less.
18. When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.
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.