Exodus 16:22-36

The Sabbath Observed

22 ¹Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the ²leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

23 then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: ³Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and ⁴all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."

24 So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and ⁵it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.

25 Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

26 "⁶Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will be none."

27 It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "⁷How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

29 "See, the LORD has given you the sabbath; therefore * He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The house of ⁸Israel named * it manna, and it was like ⁹coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

32 Then Moses said, "This is what * the LORD has commanded, 'Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' "

33 Moses said to Aaron, "¹⁰Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations."

34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before ¹¹the Testimony, to be kept.

35 ¹²The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36 (Now ¹³an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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Exodus 16:22-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 16

This chapter begins with an account of the journeying of the children of Israel from Elim to the wilderness of Sin, where they murmured for want of bread, Ex 16:1-3, when the Lord told Moses that he would rain bread from heaven for them, which Moses informed them of; and withal, that the Lord took notice of their murmurings, Ex 16:4-12 which promise the Lord fulfilled; and a description of the bread, and the name of it, are given, Ex 16:13-15, and some instructions are delivered out concerning the quantity of it to be gathered, Ex 16:16-18, the time of gathering and keeping it, Ex 16:19-21, the gathering a double quantity on the sixth day for that and the seventh day, with the reason of it, Ex 16:22-30 and a further description of it, Ex 16:31, and an order to preserve an omer of it in a pot, to be kept for generations to come, that it might be seen by them, Ex 16:32-34, and the chapter is concluded with observing, that this bread was ate by the Israelites forty years, even till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan, and the quantity they ate every day is observed what it was, Ex 16:35,36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Exodus 16:5
2. Exodus 34:31
3. Genesis 2:3; Exodus 20:8-11; Exodus 23:12; Exodus 31:15; Exodus 35:2; Leviticus 23:3; Nehemiah 9:13, 14
4. Exodus 16:19
5. Exodus 16:20
6. Exodus 20:9, 10
7. 2 Kings 17:14; Psalms 78:10; Psalms 106:13
8. Numbers 11:7-9; Deuteronomy 8:3, 16
9. Exodus 16:14
10. Hebrews 9:4; Revelation 2:17
11. Exodus 25:16, 21; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 40:20; Numbers 17:10
12. Deuteronomy 8:2; Joshua 5:12; Nehemiah 9:20, 21
13. Exodus 16:16

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "spoke"
[b]. Lit "lay up for you"
[c]. Lit "laid it up"
[d]. Lit "none on it"
[e]. Or "laws"
[f]. Lit "for the LORD
[g]. Heb "man," cf v 15
[h]. Lit "the thing which"
[i]. I.e. Approx one bu