24And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
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Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)We have here, 1. A plain intimation of the observing of a seventh day sabbath , not only before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and therefore, from the beginning , Gen. 2:3. If the sabbath had now been first instituted, how could Moses have understood what God said to him (Exod. 16:5), concerning a double portion to be gathered on the sixth d…
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