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    Exodus 16

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    The wilderness supplies a breakfast that rots on cue: kept until an ordinary morning, manna breeds maggots and smells; kept for the Sabbath, the very same food remains perfectly fresh.

    A complaint answered twicevv. 1–12

    Israel leaves Elim and reaches the Desert of Sin, where hunger turns the memory of Egypt into a country of full pots and plentiful bread. Moses and Aaron point out that the grumbling is really aimed at the LORD, who answers with meat at twilight and bread in the morning. As Aaron speaks, the glory of the LORD appears in a cloud—a rather substantial interruption to the complaint.

    Bread with a timetablevv. 13–36

    Quail cover the camp, dew settles, and beneath it lies something fine and unfamiliar. The people ask what it is; Moses names it as bread. The gathering somehow evens itself out: the one who gathers much has no excess, and the one who gathers little has no shortfall. Yet the people test the arrangement. Manna kept overnight on an ordinary day becomes foul, while the portion held over the Sabbath remains sound; some still go looking on the seventh day, though the field has nothing for them. Israel calls the bread manna, and Moses has an omer placed before the LORD as a keepsake of wilderness provision. The supply continues for forty years, right up to the border of Canaan.

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    1. Exod 16:1On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

    2. Exod 16:2And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

    3. Exod 16:3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

    4. Exod 16:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

    5. Exod 16:5Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

    6. Exod 16:6So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

    7. Exod 16:7and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?”

    8. Exod 16:8And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”

    9. Exod 16:9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”

    10. Exod 16:10And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.

    11. Exod 16:11Then the LORD said to Moses,

    12. Exod 16:12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

    13. Exod 16:13That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

    14. Exod 16:14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.

    15. Exod 16:15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

    16. Exod 16:16This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

    17. Exod 16:17So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

    18. Exod 16:18When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

    19. Exod 16:19Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”

    20. Exod 16:20But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

    21. Exod 16:21Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

    22. Exod 16:22On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

    23. Exod 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

    24. Exod 16:24So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

    25. Exod 16:25“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.

    26. Exod 16:26For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

    27. Exod 16:27Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

    28. Exod 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

    29. Exod 16:29Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”

    30. Exod 16:30So the people rested on the seventh day.

    31. Exod 16:31Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

    32. Exod 16:32Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

    33. Exod 16:33So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

    34. Exod 16:34And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    35. Exod 16:35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

    36. Exod 16:36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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    • 15Exodus 16:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
    • 182 Corinthians 8:14–15At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. This way there will be equality.
    • 3Numbers 11:4–5Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
    • 7Isaiah 40:5And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
    • 8Romans 13:2Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
    • 15John 6:31–32Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
    • 15John 6:58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
    • 23Leviticus 23:3For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
    • 7Numbers 16:11Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should grumble against him?”
    • 7John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
    • 13Numbers 11:9When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
    • 15Exodus 16:31Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
    • 23Exodus 31:15For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
    • 23Exodus 20:8–11Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
    • 35Joshua 5:12And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
    • 35Nehemiah 9:20–21You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

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