19. Moses said to them, “No one is to let any of it remain until morning.”
20. But they didn’t listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.
21. They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
22. On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
23. He told them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.’ ”
24. So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn’t smell or have any maggots in it.
25. “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you won’t find any in the field.
26. For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”
27. Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.
28. Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?
29. Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”
30. So the people rested on the seventh day.
31. The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.
32. Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”
33. Moses told Aaron, “Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved throughout your generations.”
34. As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.
35. The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.