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Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, '^(C1)Come forward before the LORD, for He has heard your grumblings.'"

And it came about, as Aaron spoke to the entire congregation of the sons of Israel, that they ^(F1)looked toward the wilderness, and behold, ^(C1)the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"^(C1)I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, '^(F1)At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and ^(C2)you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"

So it came about at evening that ^(C1)the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning ^(C2)there was a layer of dew around the camp.

^(C1)When the layer of dew ^(F1)evaporated, behold, on the ^(F2)surface of the wilderness ^(C2)there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "^(F1)What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "^(C1)It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

"This is ^(F1)what the LORD has commanded: 'Everyone gather ^(F2)as much as he will eat; you shall take ^(F3)(C1)an omer apiece according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.'"

The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little.

When they measured it by the ^(F1)omer, ^(C1)the one who had gathered much did not have too much, and the one who had gathered little did not have too little; everyone gathered ^(F2)as much as he would eat.

Moses said to them, "^(C1)No one is to leave any of it until morning."

But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.

They gathered it morning by morning, everyone ^(F1)as much as he would eat; but when the sun became hot, it would melt.

^(C1)Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, ^(F1)two omers for each one. When all the ^(C2)leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

then he said to them, "This is what the LORD ^(F1)meant: ^(C1)Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and ^(C2)all that is left over ^(F2)put aside to be kept until morning."

So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and ^(C1)it did not stink nor was there a maggot in it.

Then Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

"^(C1)Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be ^(F1)none."