So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.
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.
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Commenting on Exodus 16:22-31
And Moses said, eat that today,.... That is, he said this on the seventh day in the morning, and bid them eat of it whether baked or seethed, or as it was, or just as they pleased; however, they had liberty to eat of it, and indeed they had no other, because none fell on this day: for today is a sabbath unto the Lord...
God shaped His gift itself to sanctify the Sabbath and open the way for its legal institution through the decalogue. On the sixth day the yield doubled, two omers per person, and when Moses commanded rest, what they kept for the Sabbath neither rotted nor bred worms, proving the Israelites had no prior sabbatical practice until this sign.
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Commenting on Exodus 16:22-26