^{15 Ref} And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

^{16 Ref} This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.

¹⁷ And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

^{18 Ref} And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

^{19 Ref} And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

^{20 Ref} Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was wroth with them.

^{21 Ref} And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

^{22 Ref} And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.