Êxodo 16:20

20 Eles, porém, não deram ouvidos a Moisés, antes alguns dentre eles deixaram dele para o dia seguinte; e criou bichos, e cheirava mal; por isso indignou-se Moisés contra eles.

Êxodo 16:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 16:20

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses
That is, not all of them, some of them did, and perhaps the far greater part of them:

but some of them left it until the morning;
out of distrust, for fear they should have none the next day; being men of little faith, that could not trust God for a supply for the morrow; the Targum of Jonathan says, these were Dathan and Abiram; and so Jarchi:

and it bred worms, and stank;
or by an "hysteron proteron", and transposition of the words, the sense may be, that it stank, corrupted, and putrefied, and so produced worms, in which order the words lie, ( Exodus 16:24 ) , and this was not from the nature of the manna to breed worms so soon, but God so ordering and disposing it, that it should do so; for otherwise it would keep to another day, as what was gathered on the sixth day kept to the seventh, and there was a part of it kept for many ages, see ( Exodus 16:24-33 ) , and since the manna was of the meal kind, perhaps those worms it bred might be of the weevil sort, as Scheuchzer conjectures ^F19:

and Moses was wroth with them;
for breaking the commandment of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Physica Sacra, vol. 2. p. 179.

Êxodo 16:20 In-Context

18 Quando, porém, o mediam com o gômer, nada sobejava ao que colhera muito, nem faltava ao que colhera pouco; colhia cada um tanto quanto podia comer.

19 Também disse-lhes Moisés: Ninguém deixe dele para amanhã.

20 Eles, porém, não deram ouvidos a Moisés, antes alguns dentre eles deixaram dele para o dia seguinte; e criou bichos, e cheirava mal; por isso indignou-se Moisés contra eles.

21 Colhiam-no, pois, pela manhã, cada um conforme o que podia comer; porque, vindo o calor do sol, se derretia.

22 Mas ao sexto dia colheram pão em dobro, dois gômeres para cada um; pelo que todos os principais da congregação vieram, e contaram-no a Moisés.