¹ 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.

² And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

³ 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?

⁴ 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.

⁵ 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.

⁶ 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:

⁷ 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?

⁸ 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.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

¹² 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.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.

²² 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.

²³ 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.

²⁴ And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

²⁷ And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.

²⁸ And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

²⁹ 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.

³⁰ And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

³¹ 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.

³² 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.

³³ 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,

³⁴ As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

³⁵ 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.

³⁶ Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.

⁸ The sons of Pallu: Eliab.

⁹ The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,

¹⁰ and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

¹¹ Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die.

¹² The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;

¹³ of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

¹⁴ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

¹⁵ The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

¹⁶ of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

¹⁷ of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

¹⁸ These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

¹⁹ The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

²¹ The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

²² These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

²³ The sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

²⁴ of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

²⁵ These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

²⁶ The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

²⁷ These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

²⁸ The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

²⁹ The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

³⁰ These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

³¹ and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

³² and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

³³ Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

³⁴ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

³⁵ These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

³⁶ These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

³⁷ These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

³⁸ The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

³⁹ of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

⁴⁰ The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

⁴¹ These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

⁴² These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.

⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴ The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.

⁴⁵ Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

⁴⁶ The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

⁴⁷ These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

⁴⁸ The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

⁴⁹ of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

⁵⁰ These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.

⁵¹ These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.

⁵² Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

⁵³ "To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

⁵⁴ To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.

⁵⁵ Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

⁵⁶ According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer."