Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”
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
And it came to pass,.... Perhaps the next seventh day following: that there went out some of the people for to gather; to gather manna, as on other days; which they did not through want of provision or a greedy appetite, for they had bread every day, and on that day to the full, but to gratify their curiosity, or to see whether the words...
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