¹³ In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.¹⁴When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the wilderness was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.¹⁵When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread that the ^Lord has given you to eat.¹⁶This is what the ^Lord has commanded: “Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer to a person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” ’¹⁷The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less.¹⁸But when they measured it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed.¹⁹And Moses said to them, ‘Let no one leave any of it over until morning.’²⁰But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul. And Moses was angry with them.²¹Morning by morning they gathered it, as much as each needed; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³ Someone in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’¹⁴But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’¹⁵And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’¹⁶Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly.¹⁷And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?”¹⁸Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.¹⁹And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”²⁰But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?”²¹So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’