Exodus 16:30

30 So the people rested 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 The LORD said to Moshe, "How long do you refuse to keep my mitzvot and my laws?

29 Behold, because the LORD has given you the Shabbat, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay 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 The house of Yisra'el called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

32 Moshe said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Mitzrayim."