8. And Moses said, “When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning to fill up on, for he hears your grumblings that you grumble against him—and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh.”
9. And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the Israelites, ‘Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.’ ”
10. And at the moment of Aaron’s speaking to all the community of the Israelites, they turned to the desert, and just then the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
11. And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
12. “I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
13. And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp.
14. And the layer of dew came up, and there on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground.
15. And the Israelites saw, and they said to each other, “What is this?” because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food.
16. This is the word that Yahweh commanded, ‘Gather from it, each according to what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of you. You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.’ ”
17. And the Israelites did so, and they gathered, some more and some less.
18. And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered each according to what he could eat.
19. And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.”
20. But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
21. And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat, and it melted when the sun was hot.