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The Israelis told them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt when we sat by the cooking pots,[a] when we ate bread until we were filled—because you brought us to this desert to kill this entire congregation with hunger.”

The Lord told Moses, “Listen very carefully! I’ll cause food to rain down for you from heaven, and the people are to go out and gather each day’s portion on that day. In this way I’ll test them to demonstrate whether or not they’ll live according to my instructions. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be double what they gather on other days.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:3 Lit. pots for cooking meat
  2. Exodus 16:5 Lit. gather daily