Exodus 16:30

_SO THE PEOPLE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY._ So the people rested on the seventh day. 'This case is of importance, as showing the way and manner in which the law of the Sabbath was delivered in general. Its development among the people is throughout historical; there is always a certain historical occasion with which its statutes are connected. This is evidence of its historical truth. Further, the appointment permitting the preparation of food (Exodus 16:13: cf. Exodus 12:16) manifestly shows that the law is an early one, general as yet in its form, and intended afterward to receive a more exact definition (Havernick's 'Introduction to Pentateuch,' pp. 261, 262)....

22-31 Here is mention of a seventh-day sabbath. It was known, not only before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, even from the beginning, Genesis 2:3. The setting apart one day in seven for holy work, and, in order to that, for holy rest, was ever since God created man upon the earth, and is the most ancient of the Divine laws. Appointing them to rest on the seventh day, he took care that they should be no losers by it; and none ever will be losers by serving God. On that day they were to fetch in enough for two days, and to make it ready. This directs us to contrive family affairs, so that they may hinder us as little as possible in the work of the sabbath. Works of necessity are to be done on that day; but it is desirable to have as little as may be to do, that we may apply ourselves the more closely to prepare for the life that is...

EXPOSITION THE GATHERING OF THE SIXTH DAY. When the Israelites, having collected what seemed to them the usual quantity of manna on the sixth day, brought it home and measured it, they found the yield to be, not an omer a head for each member of the family, but two omers. The result was a surprise and a difficulty. They could not consume more than an omer a-piece. What was to be done with the remainder? Was it to be destroyed, or kept? If kept, would it not "breed worms"? To resolve their doubts, the elders brought the matter before Moses, who replied—"This is that which the Lord hath said." It is to be supposed that, in his original announcement to the elders of God's purposes as to the manna, Moses had informed them that the quantity would be double on the sixth day (Exodus 16:5

SO THE PEOPLE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY. Did not attempt to go out of their tents in quest of manna, as on other days, and observed it as a day of rest from labour, and so they continued to do in successive generations....

Exodus 16:1. _And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:_ They have been only about six weeks in the wilderness, and already they are up in arms against their leaders. Remember that we have the same kind of people to deal with as Moses and Aaron had. The children of Israel were no better than any other nation; and I do not think they were any worse. We may take them as a fair average of human nature, which is a discontented, rebellious thing in the best of circumstances. Exodus 16:3. A

XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f., Exodus 16:8) Rp, Exodus 16:9 a (morning) P, Exodus 16:13 b - Exodus 16:15 J, Exodus 16:16 P,...

THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 16 AND THEY TOOK THEIR JOURNEY FROM E-LIM, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL CAME UNTO THE WILDERNESS OF SIN, WHICH IS BETWEEN E-IIM AND SI-NAI, ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH AFTER THEIR DEPARTING OUT OF THE LAND OF E-GYPT. (2) AND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL MURMURED AGAINST MO-SES AND AGAINST AAR-ON IN THE WILDERNESS: (3) AND THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL SAID UNTO THEM, WOULD THAT WE DIED BY THE HAND OF JE-HO-VAH IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, WHEN WE SAT BY THE FLESH-POTS, WHEN WE DID EAT BREAD TO THE FULL; FOR YE HAVE BROUGHT US FORTH INTO THIS WILDERNESS, TO KILL THIS WHOLE ASSEMBLY WITH HUNGER. (4) Then said Je-ho-vah unto Mo-ses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. (5)...

THIRD MURMURING. SENDING OF THE MANNA 1. Pursuing their march southward, the Israelites come at the end of the first month after their departure from Egypt to the WILDERNESS OF SIN, forming the SW. border of the peninsula: see on Exodus 15:22. All the stations in the march are not mentioned. In Numbers 33:10 allusion is made to an 'encampment by the Red Sea' between Elim and the wilderness of Sin. It must be remembered also that, owing to the vast extent of the host, there must have been a simultaneous encampment at different places. From Elim, the Israelites might have gone by a more direct route to Sinai, but this would have led them past the copper mines among the mountains, where there was an Egyptian garrison....

EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 16 FOOD FROM HEAVEN – VERSES 1-36 GOD PROMISES FOOD – VERSES 1-12 V1 The *Israelites left Elim. It was the second month after they escaped from Egypt. They left on day 15. And they came to the *desert called Sin. This *desert is between Elim and *Mount Sinai. V2 In the *desert all the people complained against Moses and Aaron. V3 ‘If only the *LORD had killed us in Egypt!’ the people said. ‘There we sat round pots that were full of meat. And we ate all the food that we wanted. But you have brought us into this *desert. And all of us will starve and die.’...

וַ יִּשְׁבְּת֥וּ הָ עָ֖ם בַּ † יֹּ֥ום הַ שְּׁבִעִֽי׃...