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15 The people of Israel went out to examine it. They had never seen anything quite like it.

Israelites (to one another): What is it?

The people didn’t have a clue what this strange substance was.

Moses: It is the bread which the Eternal has given you to eat. 16 Here are His instructions: “Gather only as much of it as you should eat by yourself. Pick up two quarts[a] of bread for each person who lives in your tent.”

17 The Israelites did as they were told. Some people gathered a lot, others gathered less.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:16 Hebrew measurement is omer.

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