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For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there will be a feast to honor the Lord .

So for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. There must be no bread made with yeast anywhere in your land.

On that day you should tell your son: ‘We are having this feast because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

So God led them through the desert toward the Red Sea. The Israelites were dressed for fighting when they left the land of Egypt.

When the Israelites saw the king and his army coming after them, they were very frightened and cried to the Lord for help.

They said to Moses, "What have you done to us? Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? There were plenty of graves for us in Egypt.

You only need to remain calm; the Lord will fight for you."

So the cloud came between the Egyptians and the Israelites. This made it dark for the Egyptians but gave light to the Israelites. So the cloud kept the two armies apart all night.

He kept the wheels of the chariots from turning, making it hard to drive the chariots. The Egyptians shouted, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them and against Egypt."

You will lead your people and place them on your very own mountain, the place that you, Lord , made for yourself to live, the temple, Lord, that your hands have made.

Moses led the Israelites away from the Red Sea into the Desert of Shur. They traveled for three days in the desert but found no water.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "I will cause food to fall like rain from the sky for all of you. Every day the people must go out and gather what they need for that day. I want to see if the people will do what I teach them.

The Lord has commanded, ‘Each one of you must gather what he needs, about two quarts for every person in your family.'"

On the sixth day the people gathered twice as much food—four quarts for every person. When all the leaders of the community came and told this to Moses,

You should gather the food for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day. On that day there will not be any food on the ground."

Look, the Lord has made the Sabbath a day of rest for you. So on the sixth day he will give you enough food for two days, but on the seventh day each of you must stay where you are. Do not go anywhere."

Then Moses said, "The Lord said, ‘Save two quarts of this food for your descendants. Then they can see the food I gave you to eat in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.'"

Moses told Aaron, "Take a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then place it before the Lord , and save it for your descendants."

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to the land where they settled—the edge of the land of Canaan.

The measure they used for the manna was two quarts, or one-tenth of an ephah.