Daily Food And Its Memorial. Then Moses said, “This is the word which the LORD commands, ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'” Exo 16:32
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
II. FROM EGYPT TO SINAI, Exodus 12:37-18:27
4. Marah, Elim and the Manna, Exodus 15:20-16:36
35. How was the memory of the manna to be preserved?
BREAD FROM HEAVEN
Now on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long do you [people] refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions (laws)?
See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you the bread for two days on the sixth day. Let every man stay in his place; no man is to leave his place on the seventh day.”
So the people rested on the seventh day.
The house of Israel called the bread manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like flat pastry (wafers) made with honey.
Then Moses said, “This is the word which the LORD commands, ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'”
So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.”
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron [eventually] placed it in the presence of the Testimony, to be kept. [Heb_9:4]
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
(Now an omer is the tenth of an ephah.)
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 16:27-36
DAILY FOOD AND ITS MEMORIAL
Wherever the cloud broods the manna falls. If we are true to God’s leadings, and pitch our tents in obedience to His guiding cloud, we may confidently reckon on Him to provide our daily food. It will come “day by day.” Each man must gather, not only for himself, but for his own household. We are not to hoard up against tomorrow, because God, who has provided, will provide. And we are not to break in on the rest-day, or on the rest of our soul, by perpetual fret and care about our physical needs. God who opens His hand to supply the hunger of every living thing will not neglect His children. Give yourself up to holy fellowship; roll your anxieties on Him; take what He provides now, and trust Him for all coming days. Your bread shall be given you, and more than that. Remember that He gave quails in the desert and fish to the five thousand!
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 16:13-26
VIII. THE JOURNEY TO SINAI (15:22–18:27)
B. The Wilderness of Sin (Chap. 16)
6:20-31 On the sixth day the people were ordered to gather twice as much as on the other days, to tide them over the Sabbath. If they left part of it on any other day, the manna bred worms and stank. Manna was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. It could be baked or cooked. Moses rebuked those who went out to gather it on the Sabbath.
16:32-34 Some of the manna was placed in a golden urn and kept as a memorial, later to be placed in the Ark of the Covenant (Heb_9:4). God rested on the seventh day at creation (Gen_2:2), but He did not command man to do so at that time. But now He gave the law of the Sabbath to the nation of Israel. Later it became one of the Ten Commandments (Exo_20:9-11). It was a sign of the covenant made with Israel at Mount Sinai (Exo_31:13) and a weekly reminder of their deliverance from Egyptian bondage (Deu_5:15).
The “Testimony,” meaning the “Ark” of the Covenant, is mentioned here before it ever existed. This is an illustration of the law of prior mention. The “Testimony” can also mean the Ten Commandments, depending on the context.
See Matthew 12:6 Jesus is the LORD of the Sabbath, hence the 7th day Sabbath is the Lords Day since Creation.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
The 7th day Sabbath is the day of the Lord, the Lords Day.
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