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And they set forward from Elim , and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai : the fifteenth day of the second month , after they came out of the land of Egypt .
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And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness .
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And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt , when we sat over the flesh pots , and ate bread to the full . Why have you brought us into this desert , that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
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And the Lord said to Moses : Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth , and gather what is sufficient for every day : that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law , or not.
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But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day .
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And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel : In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt :
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And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord : for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord : but as for us , what are we, that you mutter against us ?
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And Moses said : In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat , and in the morning bread to the full : for he hath heard your murmurings , with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us , but against the Lord .
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Moses also said to Aaron : Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel : Come before the Lord : for he hath heard your murmuring.
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And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel , they looked towards the wilderness : and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud .
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And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying:
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I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel : say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh , and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread : and you shall know that I am the Lord your God .
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So it came to pass in the evening , that quails coming up, covered the camp : and in the morning , a dew lay round about the camp .
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And when it had covered the face of the earth , it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground .
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And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread , which the Lord hath given you to eat.
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This is the word , that the Lord hath commanded : Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat: a gomor for every man , according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent , so shall you take of it.
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And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.
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And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more: nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.
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And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning .
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And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning , and it began to be full of worms , an it putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.
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Now every one of them gathered in the morning , as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot , it melted .
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But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came , and told Moses .
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And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken : To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord . Whatsoever work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning .
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And they did so as Moses had commanded , and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.
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And Moses said : Eat it to day , because it is the sabbath of the Lord : to day it shall not be found in the field .
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Gather it six days : but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found .
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And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
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And the Lord said to Moses : How long will you refuse to keep my commandments , and my law ?
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See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath , and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision : let each man stay at home , and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day .
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And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day .
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And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna : and it was like coriander seed white , and the taste thereof like to flour with honey .
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And Moses said : This is the word , which the Lord hath commanded : Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter, that they may know the bread , wherewith I fed you in the wilderness , when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt .
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And Moses said to Aaron : Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to keep unto your generations ,
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As the Lord commanded Moses . And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.
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And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land : with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
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Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.