Exodus 16:14-36
1599 Geneva Bible
14 (A)And when the dew that was fallen was ascended, behold, a small round thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoary frost upon the earth.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is [a]Manna, for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, (B)This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16 ¶ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: gather of it every man according to his eating, [b]an omer for [c]a man according to the number of your persons: every man shall take for them which are in his tent.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did measure it with an omer, (C)he that had gathered much, had nothing over, and he that had gathered little, had no [d]lack: so every man gathered according to his eating.
19 Moses then said unto them, Let no man reserve thereof till morning.
20 Notwithstanding, they obeyed not Moses: but some of them reserved of it till morning, and it was full of worms, and [e]stank: therefore Moses was angry with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: for when the heat of the sun came, it was melted.
22 ¶ And the sixth day they gathered [f]twice so much bread, two omers for one man: then all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he answered them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that today which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe, and all that remaineth, lay it up to be kept till the morning for you.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worm therein.
25 Then Moses said, Eat that today: for today is the Sabbath unto the Lord: today ye shall not [g]find it in the field.
26 Six days shall ye gather it, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath: in it there shall be none.
27 ¶ Notwithstanding, there [h]went out some of the people in the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments, and my laws?
29 Behold, how the Lord hath given you the Sabbath: therefore he giveth you the sixth day bread for two days: tarry therefore every man in his place: let no man go out of his place the seventh day.
30 So the people rested the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like [i]to coriander seed, but white: and the taste of it was like unto wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is that which the Lord had commanded, Fill an omer of it, to keep it for your posterity: that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
33 Moses also said to Aaron, Take a [j]pot and put an omer full of Manna therein, and set it before the Lord to be kept for your posterity.
34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the [k]Testimony to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat Manna (D)forty years, until they came unto a land inhabited: they did eat Manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 The omer is the tenth part of the [l]Ephah.
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- Exodus 16:15 Which signifieth a part, portion, or gift: also meat prepared.
- Exodus 16:16 Which containeth about a pottle of our measure.
- Exodus 16:16 Hebrew, for an head.
- Exodus 16:18 God is a rich feeder of all, and none can justly complain.
- Exodus 16:20 No creature is so pure, but being abused it turneth to our destruction.
- Exodus 16:22 Which portion should serve for the Sabbath and the day before.
- Exodus 16:25 God took away the occasion from their labor, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept.
- Exodus 16:27 Their infidelity was so great, that they did expressly against God’s commandment.
- Exodus 16:31 In form and figure, but not in color, Num.11:7.
- Exodus 16:33 Of this vessel, read Heb. 9:4.
- Exodus 16:34 That is, the Ark of the covenant, to wit, after that the Ark was made.
- Exodus 16:36 Which measure contained about ten pottels.
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