¹ 神对雅各说：起来！上伯特利去，住在那里；要在那里筑一座坛给神，就是你逃避你哥哥以扫的时候向你显现的那位。

² 雅各就对他家中的人并一切与他同在的人说：你们要除掉你们中间的外邦神，也要自洁，更换衣裳。

³ 我们要起来，上伯特利去，在那里我要筑一座坛给神，就是在我遭难的日子应允我的祷告、在我行的路上保佑我的那位。

⁴ 他们就把外邦人的神像和他们耳朵上的环子交给雅各；雅各都藏在示剑那里的橡树底下。

⁵ 他们便起行前往。神使那周围城邑的人都甚惊惧，就不追赶雅各的众子了。

⁶ 於是雅各和一切与他同在的人到了迦南地的路斯，就是伯特利。

⁷ 他在那里筑了一座坛，就给那地方起名叫伊勒伯特利(就是伯特利之神的意思)；因为他逃避他哥哥的时候，神在那里向他显现。

⁸ 利百加的奶母底波拉死了，就葬在伯特利下边橡树底下；那棵树名叫亚伦巴古。

⁹ 雅各从巴旦亚兰回来，神又向他显现，赐福与他，

¹⁰ 且对他说：你的名原是雅各，从今以後不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列。这样，他就改名叫以色列。

¹¹ 神又对他说：我是全能的神；你要生养众多，将来有一族和多国的民从你而生，又有君王从你而出。

¹² 我所赐给亚伯拉罕和以撒的地，我要赐给你与你的後裔。

¹³ 神就从那与雅各说话的地方升上去了。

¹⁴ 雅各便在那里立了一根石柱，在柱子上奠酒，浇油。

¹⁵ 雅各就给那地方起名叫伯特利。

¹⁶ 他们从伯特利起行，离以法他还有一段路程，拉结临产甚是艰难。

¹⁷ 正在艰难的时候，收生婆对他说：不要怕，你又要得一个儿子了。

¹⁸ 他将近於死，灵魂要走的时候，就给他儿子起名叫便俄尼；他父亲却给他起名叫便雅悯。

¹⁹ 拉结死了，葬在以法他的路旁；以法他就是伯利恒。

²⁰ 雅各在他的坟上立了一统碑，就是拉结的墓碑，到今日还在。

²¹ 以色列起行前往，在以得楼那边支搭帐棚。

²² 以色列住在那地的时候，流便去与他父亲的妾辟拉同寝，以色列也听见了。雅各共有十二个儿子。

²³ 利亚所生的是雅各的长子流便，还有西缅、利未、犹大、以萨迦、西布伦。

²⁴ 拉结所生的是约瑟、便雅悯。

²⁵ 拉结的使女辟拉所生的是但、拿弗他利。

²⁶ 利亚的使女悉帕所生的是迦得、亚设。这是雅各在巴旦亚兰所生的儿子。

²⁷ 雅各来到他父亲以撒那里，到了基列亚巴的幔利，乃是亚伯拉罕和以撒寄居的地方；基列亚巴就是希伯仑。

²⁸ 以撒共活了一百八十岁。

²⁹ 以撒年纪老迈，日子满足，气绝而死，归到他列祖(原文作本民)那里。他两个儿子以扫、雅各把他埋葬了。

¹ They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

² The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

⁴ Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

⁵ 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."

⁶ Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

⁸ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

⁹ Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

¹⁰ It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹² "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

¹³ It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

¹⁴ When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

¹⁵ When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

¹⁶ This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

¹⁷ The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

¹⁸ When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

¹⁹ Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

²⁰ Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

²¹ They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

²² It happened 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 Moses.

²³ He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to Bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

²⁴ They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

²⁵ Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. today you shall not find it in the field.

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

²⁷ It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

²⁸ Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁹ Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹ The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

³² Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

³³ Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

³⁴ As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

³⁵ The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.