Ex. 16:1‑17:16• 1And they journeyed from Elim, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt.
2And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.
3And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!
4Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
5And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare what they have brought in; and it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily.
6And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening, then shall ye know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
7and in the morning, then shall ye see the glory of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings against Jehovah;--and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him … and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.
9And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the children of Israel, Come near into the presence of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings.
10And it came to pass, when Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, that they turned toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.
11And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
12I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.
13And it came to pass in the evening, that quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round the camp.
14And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.
15And the children of Israel saw it, and said one to another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
16This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Gather of it every man according to what he can eat, an omer a poll, according to the number of your persons: ye shall take every man for those that are in his tent.
17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little.
18And they measured with the omer: then he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little wanted nothing: they had gathered every man according to the measure of his eating.
19And Moses said to them, Let no man leave any of it until the morning.
20But they did not hearken to Moses; and some men left of it until the morning; then worms bred in it and it stank. And Moses was wroth with them.
21And they gathered it every morning, every man as much as he could eat; and when the sun became hot, it melted.
22And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses.
23And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has said: To-morrow is the rest, the holy sabbath, of Jehovah: bake what ye will bake, and cook what ye will cook; and lay up for yourselves all that remains over, to be kept for the morning.
24And they laid it up for the morning, as Moses had commanded; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
25And Moses said, Eat it to-day; for to-day is sabbath to Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
26Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day is sabbath: on it there shall be none.
27And it came to pass on the seventh day that there went out some from the people to gather it, and they found none.
28And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
29See, for Jehovah hath given you the sabbath; therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide every man in his place: let no man go from his place on the seventh day.
30And the people rested on the seventh day.
31And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey.
32And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
33And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put in it an omer full of manna, and deposit it before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations.
34As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so Aaron deposited it before the Testimony, to be kept.
35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
1And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, at the command of Jehovah; and they encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
2And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?
3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!
5And Jehovah said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy staff with which thou didst smite the river, take in thy hand, and go.
6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock on Horeb; and thou shalt strike the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.
7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?
8And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.
10And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11And it came to pass when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12And Moses' hands were heavy; then they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on this side, and one on that side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.
15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.
16And he said, For the hand is on the throne of Jah; Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation! (Ex. 16:1‑17:16)
Neh. 9:12‑23• 12And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
14And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.
15And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
19yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
20Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
22And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
23And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it. (Neh. 9:12‑23)
Psa. 78:14‑28• 14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
19And they spoke against God: they said, Is *God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations: (Psa. 78:14‑28)