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neere before the Lord: for he hath heard your it, but in the seuenth day is the Sabbath: in it
murmurings. 10 Now as Aaron spake vnto the there shalbe none. 27 Notwithstanding, there
whole Congregation of the children of Israel, they went out some of the people in ye seuenth day
looked toward the wildernesse, and beholde, the for to gather, and they found none. 28 And the
glory of the Lord appeared in a cloude. 11 (For Lord sayde vnto Moses, Howe long refuse yee
the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, saying, 12 I haue to keepe my commandements, and my lawes?
heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: 29 Beholde, howe the Lord hath giuen you the
tell them therefore, and say, At euen ye shall Sabbath: therefore he giueth you the sixt day
eate flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled bread for two dayes: tary therefore euery man
with bread, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord in his place: let no man goe out of his place the
your God) 13 And so at euen the quailes came seuenth day. 30 So the people rested the seuenth
and couered the campe: and in the morning the day. 31 And the house of Israel called the name of
dewe lay round about the hoste. 14 And when it, MAN. and it was like to coriander seede, but
the dewe that was fallen was ascended, beholde, white: and the taste of it was like vnto wafers
a small round thing was vpon the face of the made with hony. 32 And Moses said, This is that
wildernes, small as the hoare frost on the earth. which the Lord hath commanded, Fill an Omer
15 And when the children of Israel sawe it, they of it, to keepe it for your posteritie: that they
sayde one to another, It is MAN, for they wist not may see the bread wherewith I haue fed you in
what it was. And Moses sayd vnto them, This wildernesse, when I brought you out of the land
is the breade which the Lord hath giuen you to of Egypt. 33 Moses also said to Aaron, Take a pot
eate. 16 This is the thing which the Lord hath and put an Omer full of MAN therein, and set
commanded: gather of it euery man according it before the Lord to be kept for your posteritie.
to his eating an Omer for a man according to the 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laied
number of your persons: euery man shall take for it vp before the Testimonie to be kept. 35 And
them which are in his tent. 17 And the children the children of Israel did eate MAN fourtie yeres,
of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some vntill they came vnto a land inhabited: they did
lesse. 18 And when they did measure it with an eate MAN vntill they came to the borders of the
Omer, hee that had gathered much, had nothing land of Canaan. 36 The Omer is the tenth part of
ouer, and he that had gathered litle, had no lacke: the Ephah.
so euery man gathered according to his eating.
19 Moses then said vnto them, Let no man reserue 17
thereof till morning. 20 Notwithstanding they 1 And all the Congregation of the children of
obeyed not Moses: but some of them reserued Israel departed from the wildernesse of Sin, by
of it till morning, and it was full of wormes, and their iourneyes at the commandement of the
stanke: therefore Moses was angrie with them. Lord, and camped in Rephidim, where was no
21 And they gathered it euery morning, euery water for the people to drinke. 2 Wherefore
man according to his eating: for when the heate the people contended with Moses, and sayde,
of the sunne came, it was melted. 22 And the Giue vs water that we may drinke. And Moses
sixt day they gathered twise so much bread, two sayde vnto them, Why contende yee with me?
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Omers for one man: then all the rulers of the wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? So the people
Congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he thirsted there for water, and the people mur-
answered them, This is that, which the Lord hath mured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast
sayde, To morowe is the rest of the holy Sabbath thou thus brought vs out of Egypt to kill vs and
vnto the Lord: bake that to day which ye wil our children and our cattel with thirst? 4 And
bake, and seethe that which ye wil seethe, and Moses cried to the Lord, saying, What shall I do
all that remaineth, lay it vp to be kept till the to this people? for they be almost ready to stone
morning for you. 24 And they laied it vp till me. And ye Lord answered to Moses, Goe before
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the morning, as Moses bade, and it stanke not, the people, and take with thee of the Elders of
neyther was there any worme therein. 25 Then Israel: and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the
Moses sayde, Eate that to day: for to day is the riuer, take in thine hand, and go: Behold, I will
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Sabbath vnto the Lord: to day ye shall not finde stand there before thee vpon the rocke in Horeb,
it in the fielde. 26 Sixe dayes shall yee gather and thou shalt smite on the rocke, and water shall