These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Exodus 16
Tanakh 36 verses
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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and , on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of .
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And the whole congregation of the children of murmured against and against in the wilderness;
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and the children of said unto them: ‘Would that we had died by the hand of in the land of , when we sat by the -pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole with hunger.’
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Lamentations 4:9 Exodus 17:3 Numbers 11:4-5 Numbers 14:2 Numbers 20:3-5 Acts 26:29 Numbers 16:41 Numbers 11:15 Deuteronomy 28:67 Joshua 7:7 Jeremiah 2:6 Job 3:10 Exodus 2:23 1 Corinthians 4:8 Jonah 4:8-9 Job 3:20 Jeremiah 20:14-18 2 Corinthians 11:1 Deuteronomy 8:3 Numbers 16:13 Job 3:1 2 Samuel 18:33 Exodus 5:21 - 4 Then said unto : ‘Behold, I will cause to rain bread from for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My , or not.
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And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.’
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- 6 And and said unto all the children of : ‘At even, then ye shall that hath brought you out from the land of ;
- 7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the of ; for that He hath heard your murmurings against ; and what are we, that ye murmur against us?’
- 8 And said: ‘This shall be, when shall give you in the evening to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against Him; and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against .’
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And said unto : ‘Say unto all the congregation of the children of : Come near before ; for He hath heard your murmurings.’
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- 10 And it came to pass, as spoke unto the whole congregation of the children of , that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the of appeared in the cloud.
- 11 And spoke unto , saying:
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I have heard the murmurings of the children of . Speak unto them, saying: At dusk ye shall eat , and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall that I am your .’
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And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew round about the camp.
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And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
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- 15 And when the children of saw it, they said one to another: ‘What is it?’—for they knew not what it was. And said unto them: ‘It is the bread which hath given you to eat.
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This is the thing which hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.’
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- 17 And the children of did so, and gathered some more, some less.
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And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
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And said unto them: ‘Let no man leave of it till the morning.’
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Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto ; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and rotted; and was wroth with them.
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And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted.
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And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told .
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- 23 And he said unto them: ‘This is that which hath spoken: To-morrow is a solemn rest, a unto . Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.’
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And they laid it up till the morning, as bade; and it did not rot, neither was there any worm therein.
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And said: ‘Eat that to-day; for to-day is a unto ; to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
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Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the , in it there shall be none.’
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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.
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- 28 And said unto : ‘How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?
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See that hath given you the ; therefore He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.’
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So the people rested on the seventh day.
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And the house of called the thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
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And said: ‘This is the thing which hath commanded: Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of .’
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And said unto : ‘Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before , to be kept throughout your generations.’
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- 34 As commanded , so laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- 35 And the children of did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of .
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Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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