| Book of Exodus |
Chapter 16 - Click for Chapter Audio  |
- 16:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then they left Elim and journeyed into the Sin F18 Desert, between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there a month after leaving Egypt. F19
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- 16:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - There, too, the whole community of Israel spoke bitterly against Moses and Aaron.
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- 16:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Oh, that we were back in Egypt," they moaned. "It would have been better if the LORD had killed us there! At least there we had plenty to eat. But now you have brought us into this desert to starve us to death."
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- 16:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Look, I'm going to rain down food from heaven for you. The people can go out each day and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether they will follow my instructions.
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- 16:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Tell them to pick up twice as much as usual on the sixth day of each week."
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- 16:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then Moses and Aaron called a meeting of all the people of Israel and told them, "In the evening you will realize that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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- 16:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - In the morning you will see the glorious presence of the LORD. He has heard your complaints, which are against the LORD and not against us.
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- 16:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning, for he has heard all your complaints against him. Yes, your complaints are against the LORD, not against us."
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- 16:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say this to the entire community of Israel: 'Come into the LORD's presence, and hear his reply to your complaints.'"
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- 16:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And as Aaron spoke to the people, they looked out toward the desert. Within the guiding cloud, they could see the awesome glory of the LORD.
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- 16:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - And the LORD said to Moses,
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- 16:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "I have heard the people's complaints. Now tell them, 'In the evening you will have meat to eat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.'"
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- 16:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - That evening vast numbers of quail arrived and covered the camp. The next morning the desert all around the camp was wet with dew.
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- 16:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - When the dew disappeared later in the morning, thin flakes, white like frost, covered the ground.
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- 16:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The Israelites were puzzled when they saw it. "What is it?" they asked.And Moses told them, "It is the food the LORD has given you.
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- 16:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The LORD says that each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts F20 for each person."
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- 16:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the people of Israel went out and gathered this food – some getting more, and some getting less.
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- 16:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - By gathering two quarts for each person, everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those who gathered only a little had enough. Each family had just what it needed.
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- 16:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then Moses told them, "Do not keep any of it overnight."
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- 16:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - But, of course, some of them didn't listen and kept some of it until morning. By then it was full of maggots and had a terrible smell. And Moses was very angry with them.
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- 16:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The people gathered the food morning by morning, each family according to its need. And as the sun became hot, the food they had not picked up melted and disappeared.
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- 16:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - On the sixth day, there was twice as much as usual on the ground – four quarts F21 for each person instead of two. The leaders of the people came and asked Moses why this had happened.
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- 16:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - He replied, "The LORD has appointed tomorrow as a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. On this day we will rest from our normal daily tasks. So bake or boil as much as you want today, and set aside what is left for tomorrow."
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- 16:24 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - The next morning the leftover food was wholesome and good, without maggots or odor.
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- 16:25 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Moses said, "This is your food for today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD. There will be no food on the ground today.
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- 16:26 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Gather the food for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath. There will be no food on the ground for you on that day."
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- 16:27 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Some of the people went out anyway to gather food, even though it was the Sabbath day. But there was none to be found.
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- 16:28 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "How long will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?" the LORD asked Moses.
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- 16:29 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - "Do they not realize that I have given them the seventh day, the Sabbath, as a day of rest? That is why I give you twice as much food on the sixth day, so there will be enough for two days. On the Sabbath day you must stay in your places. Do not pick up food from the ground on that day."
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- 16:30 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the people rested on the seventh day.
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- 16:31 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - In time, the food became known as manna. F22 It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey cakes.
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- 16:32 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Then Moses gave them this command from the LORD: "Take two quarts of manna and keep it forever as a treasured memorial of the LORD's provision. By doing this, later generations will be able to see the bread that the LORD provided in the wilderness when he brought you out of Egypt."
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- 16:33 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Moses said to Aaron, "Get a container and put two quarts of manna into it. Then store it in a sacred place F23 as a reminder for all future generations."
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- 16:34 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - Aaron did this, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. He eventually placed it for safekeeping in the Ark of the Covenant. F24
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- 16:35 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived in the land of Canaan, where there were crops to eat.
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- 16:36 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ]
[ Multi-Translation | Make Poster ] - (The container used to measure the manna was an omer, which held about two quarts.) F25
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FOOTNOTES: F18 Not to be confused with the English word sin. F19 Hebrew on the fifteenth day of the second month. The Exodus had occurred on the fourteenth day of the first month (see 12:6). F20 Hebrew 1 omer [2 liters]; also in 16:18, 32, 33. F21 Hebrew 2 omers [4 liters]. F22 Manna means "What is it?" See 16:15. F23 Hebrew before the LORD. F24 Hebrew in front of the Testimony. F25 Hebrew An omer is one tenth of an ephah.
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