^{15 Ref} When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

^{16 Ref} This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

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

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

^{19 Ref} Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

^{20 Ref} Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

^{21 Ref} They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

^{22 Ref} It happened 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.