¹以色列人在旷野发怨言

¹And they journey from Elim, and all the company of the sons of Israel come in unto the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt.

²以色列全体会众在旷野都向摩西和亚伦发怨言；

²And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³以色列人对他们说：“我们宁愿在埃及地坐在肉锅旁边，吃饭吃到饱的时候，死在耶和华的手里！你们倒把我们领出来，到这旷野，是要叫这全体会众饿死啊！”

³and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety — for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.`

⁴耶和华对摩西说：“看哪，我要把粮食从天上降给你们；人民可以出去，每天收取当天的分量，我好试验他们是否遵行我的律法。

⁴And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, I am raining to you bread from the heavens — and the people have gone out and gathered the matter of a day in its day — so that I try them whether they walk in My law, or not;

⁵到第六天，他们把收进来的预备好，比每天收取的多一倍。”

⁵and it hath been on the sixth day, that they have prepared that which they bring in, and it hath been double above that which they gather day [by] day.`

⁶摩西和亚伦对以色列众人说：“今晚你们必定知道是耶和华把你们从埃及地领出来。

⁶And Moses saith — Aaron also — unto all the sons of Israel, `Evening — and ye have known that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷明早你们必定看见耶和华的荣耀，因为耶和华听见了你们向他所发的怨言了。我们算什么，你们竟向我们发怨言呢？”

⁷and morning — and ye have seen the honour of Jehovah, in His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah, and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?`

⁸摩西又说：“耶和华晚上必给你们肉吃，早晨必给你们食物吃饱，因为耶和华听见了你们埋怨他所说的怨言了。我们算什么？你们的怨言不是向我们发的，而是向耶和华发的。”

⁸And Moses saith, `In Jehovah`s giving to you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety — in Jehovah`s hearing your murmurings, which ye are murmuring against Him, and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against Jehovah.`

⁹摩西对亚伦说：“你要对以色列全体会众说：‘你们走近耶和华面前，因为他已经听见了你们的怨言了。’”

⁹And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Say unto all the company of the sons of Israel, Come ye near before Jehovah, for He hath heard your murmurings;`

¹⁰亚伦对以色列全体会众说话的时候，他们向着旷野观望，看见耶和华的荣耀在云中显现出来。

¹⁰and it cometh to pass, when Aaron is speaking unto all the company of the sons of Israel, that they turn towards the wilderness, and lo, the honour of Jehovah is seen in the cloud.

¹¹耶和华吩咐摩西说：

¹¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹²“以色列人的怨言，我已经听见了。你告诉他们说：‘黄昏的时候你们必吃肉，早晨的时候必有食物吃饱；这样，你们就知道我耶和华是你们的　神了。’”

¹²`I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak unto them, saying, Between the evenings ye eat flesh, and in the morning ye are satisfied [with] bread, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah your God.`

¹³鹌鹑与吗哪到了晚上，有鹌鹑飞上来，把营都遮盖了；到了早晨，营的四周有一层露水。

¹³And it cometh to pass in the evening, that the quail cometh up, and covereth the camp, and in the morning there hath been the lying of dew round about the camp,

¹⁴露水上升以后，就见野地上有细小鳞状的东西，像小白霜一样细小的东西。

¹⁴and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth.

¹⁵以色列人看见了，就彼此对问说：“这是什么？”原来他们不知道那是什么。摩西对他们说：“这就是耶和华赐给你们吃的食物。

¹⁵And the sons of Israel see, and say one unto another, `What [is] it?` for they have not known what it [is]; and Moses saith unto them, `It [is] the bread which Jehovah hath given to you for food.

¹⁶耶和华吩咐的话是这样的：‘你们要按着各人的食量收取，按着你们的人数为帐幕里的人收取，一人两公升。’”

¹⁶`This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Gather of it each according to his eating, an omer for a poll; and the number of your persons, take ye each for those in his tent.`

¹⁷以色列人就这样行了；有的多收、有的少收。

¹⁷And the sons of Israel do so, and they gather, he who is [gathering] much, and he who is [gathering] little;

¹⁸他们用升斗衡量的时候，多收的没有剩余，少收的也不缺乏；各人按着自己的食量收取。

¹⁸and they measure with an omer, and he who is [gathering] much hath nothing over, and he who is [gathering] little hath no lack, each according to his eating they have gathered.

¹⁹摩西对他们说：“谁也不可把一些留到早晨。”

¹⁹And Moses saith unto them, `Let no man leave of it till morning;`

²⁰他们却不听摩西的话，有人把一些留到早晨，就生虫发臭了。摩西就向他们发怒。

²⁰and they have not hearkened unto Moses, and some of them do leave of it till morning, and it bringeth up worms and stinketh; and Moses is wroth with them.

²¹他们每天早晨都按着各人的食量去收取；太阳一发热，就融化了。

²¹And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating; when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.

²²到第六日，他们收取了两倍的食物，每人四公升；会众的首领都来告诉摩西。

²²And it cometh to pass on the sixth day, they have gathered a second bread, two omers for one, and all the princes of the company come in, and declare to Moses.

²³摩西对他们说：“耶和华这样说：‘明天是安息日，是向耶和华守的圣安息日。你们要烤的，就烤吧；要煮的，就煮吧；所有余剩的要自己保存着，直留到早晨。’”

²³And he saith unto them, `It [is] that which Jehovah hath spoken [of]; a rest — a holy sabbath to Jehovah — [is] to-morrow; that which ye bake, bake; and that which ye boil, boil; and all that is over, let rest for yourselves in charge till the morning.`

²⁴他们就照着摩西吩咐的，把余剩的留到早晨；竟然不发臭，里头也没有生虫。

²⁴And they let it rest until the morning, as Moses hath commanded, and it hath not stank, and a worm hath not been in it.

²⁵摩西说：“今天吃这个吧，因为今天是向耶和华守的安息日，今日你们在田野里必找不着。

²⁵And Moses saith, `Eat it to-day, for to-day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah; to-day ye find it not in the field:

²⁶六天你们可以收取，但第七天是安息日，在那一天什么都没有了。”

²⁶six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day — the sabbath — in it there is none.`

²⁷第七天民间有人出去收取，可是什么也找不着。

²⁷And it cometh to pass on the seventh day, some of the people have gone out to gather, and have not found.

²⁸耶和华对摩西说：“你们拒绝遵守我的诫命和律法，要到几时呢？

²⁸And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `How long have ye refused to keep My commands, and My laws?

²⁹你们看，耶和华把安息日赐给了你们，所以第六日他赐给你们两天的食物；第七天你们各人要住在家里，谁都不可离开自己的地方。”

²⁹see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath, therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; abide ye each [in] his place, no one doth go out from his place on the seventh day.`

³⁰于是人民在第七天都安息了。

³⁰And the people rest on the seventh day,

³¹以色列家给这食物起名叫“吗哪”，它像芫荽的种子，色白，味道像搀蜜的薄饼。

³¹and the house of Israel call its name Manna, and it [is] as coriander seed, white; and its taste [is] as a cake with honey.

³²摩西说：“耶和华吩咐的话是这样：要把满两公升的吗哪保留起来给你们的后代，好让他们可以看见当日我把你们从埃及地领出来的时候，在旷野给你们吃的食物。”

³²And Moses saith, `This [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Fill the omer with it, for a charge for your generations, so that they see the bread which I have caused you to eat in the wilderness, in My bringing you out from the land of Egypt.`

³³摩西对亚伦说：“拿一个罐子来，装满两公升吗哪，存放在耶和华面前，保留起来给你们的后代。”

³³And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take one pot, and put there the fulness of the omer of manna, and let it rest before Jehovah, for a charge for your generations;`

³⁴亚伦就照着耶和华吩咐摩西的，把吗哪存留在法柜前。

³⁴as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.

³⁵以色列人吃吗哪共四十年，直到进了有人居住的地方为止；他们吃吗哪，直到进入迦南地的边界为止。

³⁵And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.

³⁶两公升就是当时的标准量器的十分之一。（“两公升就是当时的标准量器的十分之一”原文作“一俄梅珥就是一伊法的十分之一”）

³⁶and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.