Exodus
Chapter 16
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1They journeyed from Elim, and the whole congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their leaving the land of Egypt.
2The whole congregation of the sons of Israel lodged against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.
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The written form is וילינו, with a yod, the spelling of “they lodged,” the verb of staying the night. The Masoretic reading is וילונו, “they complained.” The written form is printed. The rest of the chapter uses the noun “complaints.”
3The sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pot, when we ate bread to the full. You have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
4God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain bread from the sky for you. The people shall go out and gather a day’s portion on its day, so that I can test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.
5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it shall be double what they gather day by day.”
6Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “In the evening you will know that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. brought you out of the land of Egypt,
7and in the morning you will see God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s glory, when he hears your complaints against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. What are we, that you complain against us?”
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The written form is תלונו, “you complain.” The Masoretic reading is תלינו, pointed as a different stem of the same complaint verb. The written form is printed.
8Moses said, “When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to the full, when God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. hears your complaints that you are making against him, what are we? Your complaints are not against us. They are against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..”
9Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., because he has heard your complaints.’”
10As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness, and look, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s glory appeared in the cloud.
11God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses,
12“I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel. Speak to them: Between the evenings you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be full of bread, and you shall know that I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.”
13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
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Selav is the quail. The bird is named, and no other species is substituted.
14The layer of dew went up, and look, on the surface of the wilderness, a fine flaky thing, fine as frost on the ground.
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Daq mechuspas is fine and flaking, like scales. “A fine flaky thing” is printed.
15The sons of Israel saw it and said to one another, “Man hu, what is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has given you to eat.”
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Man hu is “what is it?” The name of the bread is man, taken from that question. A later ending, “manna,” is not added.
16This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded: Gather of it, each of you, as much as he can eat, an A small measure for grain. a head, by the number of your persons. Each shall take it for those in his tent.
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An omer is a measure. Verse 36 says it is a tenth of an ephah. The amount in modern units is not added.
17The sons of Israel did so. They gathered, some more and some less.
18They measured it by the A small measure for grain.. The one who had more had no excess, and the one who had less had no lack. Each gathered as much as he could eat.
19Moses said to them, “No one shall leave any of it until morning.”
20They did not listen to Moses. Some people left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. Moses was angry with them.
21They gathered it morning by morning, each as much as he could eat, and when the sun grew hot it melted.
22On the sixth day they gathered double bread, two omers for each one. All the chiefs of the congregation came and told Moses.
23He said to them, “This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said: Tomorrow is a rest, a holy A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and set aside all the extra for yourselves, to be kept until morning.”
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Shabbaton shabbat qodesh is a full rest, a holy sabbath. Both words are printed. Sabbath is the rest day.
24They set it aside until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink, and there was no worm in it.
25Moses said, “Eat it today, because today is a A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. Today you will not find it in the field.
26Six days you shall gather it. On the seventh day, the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land., there will be none.”
27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
28God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
29See that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has given you the A time of rest set aside for God. It may be a day, or a whole year for the land.. Therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Stay, each of you, in your place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30The people rested on the seventh day.
31The house of Israel named it man. It was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer in honey.
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Gad is coriander. Tzappichit is a flat cake, a wafer. Both are printed as foods, not as later recipe names.
32Moses said, “This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded: A full A small measure for grain. of it is to be kept for your generations, so that they see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
33Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put a full A small measure for grain. of man in it, and set it before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to be kept for your generations.”
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Tzintzenet is a jar. The material is not named.
34As God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses, Aaron set it before the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest., to be kept.
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Ha-edut is the Testimony, the terms that will be put in the chest. The chest itself is not named in this verse.
35The sons of Israel ate the man forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the man until they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
36The A small measure for grain. is a tenth of the A large measure for grain..