Exodus 16:25

25 Moshe said, "Eat that today, for today is a Shabbat to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.

Exodus 16:25 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 16:25

And Moses said, eat that today
That is, he said this on the seventh day in the morning, and bid them eat of it whether baked or seethed, or as it was, or just as they pleased; however, they had liberty to eat of it, and indeed they had no other, because none fell on this day:

for today is a sabbath unto the Lord;
a time of rest from labour, and to be employed in the service of the Lord:

today ye shall not find it in the field:
should they seek for it, which they had no occasion to do, since there was a sufficiency provided the day before; and this he said to prevent their going out to seek for it, which, if out of curiosity or for any other reason any of them should do, it would be in vain and fruitless.

Exodus 16:25 In-Context

23 He said to them, "This is that which the LORD has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Shabbat to the LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning."

24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moshe asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

25 Moshe said, "Eat that today, for today is a Shabbat to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.

26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Shabbat. In it there shall be none."

27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.