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.
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And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
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See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
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So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
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And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.
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And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.
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