Verse 4
Exodus 16:4
Bible in Basic English
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Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל מֹשֶׁ֔ה הִנְ/נִ֨י מַמְטִ֥יר לָ/כֶ֛ם לֶ֖חֶם מִן הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם וְ/יָצָ֨א הָ/עָ֤ם וְ/לָֽקְטוּ֙ דְּבַר י֣וֹם בְּ/יוֹמ֔/וֹ לְמַ֧עַן אֲנַסֶּ֛/נּוּ הֲ/יֵלֵ֥ךְ בְּ/תוֹרָתִ֖/י אִם לֹֽא
English Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread for you from the heavens, and the people shall go out and gather a thing each day, so that I may test them whether they will walk in My law or not."
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Chapter 16 Context
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And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin...
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And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
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And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to de...
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Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go...
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And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they g...
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And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it...
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And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have co...
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And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in fu...
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And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given...
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10
And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of th...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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12
The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will hav...
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13
And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and...
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And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice...
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15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea w...
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This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one...
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And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.
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And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enoug...
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And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.
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But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms...
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And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was g...
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And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all th...
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And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord:...
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And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms.
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And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today...
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For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.
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But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.
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And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
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See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two...
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So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
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31
And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like ca...
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And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future ge...
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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord...
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So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
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And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with p...
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Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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