Exodus 16:30

30 So the people ¹rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:30 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 16:30

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 16:30 In-Context

28 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

29 See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. ”

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. ’”

Cross References

• 1. 16:30 Luke 23:56