Exodus 16:34

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

Exodus 16:34 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 16:34

As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
testimony, to be kept.
] That is, before the ark of the testimony; when that was made, as it was in a little time after this, called the testimony, because it contained in it the law, which was a testimony or testification of the mind and will of God unto Israel, see ( Exodus 25:16 Exodus 25:21 Exodus 25:22 ) the apostle says, the pot of manna was in the ark, ( Hebrews 9:4 ) that is, on one side of it, (See Gill on Hebrews 9:4).

Exodus 16:34 In-Context

32 Then Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: 'Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' "

33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations."

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

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

36 Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.