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^(C1)When the layer of dew ^(F1)evaporated, behold, on the ^(F2)surface of the wilderness ^(C2)there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "^(F1)What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "^(C1)It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

"This is ^(F1)what the LORD has commanded: 'Everyone gather ^(F2)as much as he will eat; you shall take ^(F3)(C1)an omer apiece according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.'"

The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little.

When they measured it by the ^(F1)omer, ^(C1)the one who had gathered much did not have too much, and the one who had gathered little did not have too little; everyone gathered ^(F2)as much as he would eat.

Moses said to them, "^(C1)No one is to leave any of it until morning."

But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.

They gathered it morning by morning, everyone ^(F1)as much as he would eat; but when the sun became hot, it would melt.

^(C1)Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, ^(F1)two omers for each one. When all the ^(C2)leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

then he said to them, "This is what the LORD ^(F1)meant: ^(C1)Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and ^(C2)all that is left over ^(F2)put aside to be kept until morning."

So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and ^(C1)it did not stink nor was there a maggot in it.

Then Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

"^(C1)Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be ^(F1)none."

Yet it came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "^(C1)How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My ^(F1)instructions?

"See, ^(F1)the LORD has given you the Sabbath; for that reason He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain, everyone, in his place; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day."

So the people rested on the seventh day.

And the house of ^(C1)Israel named the bread ^(F1)manna, and it was like ^(C2)coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Then Moses said, "This is ^(F1)what the LORD has commanded: 'A ^(F2)full omer of it is to be kept safe throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

And Moses said to Aaron, "^(C1)Take a jar and put a ^(F1)full omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept safe throughout your generations."

As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before ^(C1)the Testimony, to be kept.

And ^(C1)the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.