“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.
The sabbath was no new thing when God gave the double portion on the sixth day; the people grasped His meaning at once, which proves they knew of it before Egypt or Sinai. Setting apart one day in seven for holy rest is the most ancient of all positive laws, the good old way. God will never let a man lose by serving Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 16:22-31
Six days ye shall gather it,.... Day after day, every morning, as they had done the six days past, so they should during their stay in the wilderness: but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath; which is repeated, being a new thing, to impress it on their minds: in it there shall be none: no manna; none shall fall, and so none can...
And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. (l) God took away the opportunity for their labour, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept.