Manna And Quals In The Wilderness. So in the evening the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a blanket of dew around the camp.
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine, flake-like thing, as fine as frost on the ground. Exo 16:13-14
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
34. What does the manna teach regarding our own spiritual food?
BREAD FROM HEAVEN
So in the evening the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a blanket of dew around the camp.
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine, flake-like thing, as fine as frost on the ground.
When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. [Joh_6:31, Joh_6:33]
This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let every man gather as much of it as he needs. Take an omer for each person, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.'”
The Israelites did so, and some gathered much [of it] and some [only a] little.
When they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered a large amount had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered according to his need (family size).
Moses said, “Let none of it be left [overnight] until [the next] morning.”
But they did not listen to Moses, and some left a supply of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul and rotten; and Moses was angry with them.
So they gathered it every morning, each as much as he needed, because when the sun was hot it melted.
Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each person; and all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.
He said to them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD’; bake and boil what you will bake and boil [today], and all that remains left over put aside for yourselves to keep until morning.”
They put it aside until morning, as Moses told them, and it did not become foul nor was it wormy.
Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.
Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none [in the field].”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 16:13-26
THE MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS
The manna was typical of Christ. See Joh_6:31-34. He came down from heaven to bring God’s life within the reach of man. It is not enough that God has made so rich and plentiful a provision for us; we must appropriate it by our daily prayer and faith. Our Lord calls Himself “the bread of life,” not only to teach us what He is in himself in relation to our soul-need, but to remind us that He must be inwardly appropriated, fed upon, and made part of our very selves. Only so can He impart strength and joy to our hearts. It was not enough that the manna, sparkling like pearls in the morning sunshine, laid within their reach, the Israelites must gather it. The dew speaks not only of the Holy Spirit, but of the dawn. There is no time like the early morning for fellowship with Jesus! You cannot have too much. Gather all you may, you will have none to spare; but if you are pressed with needful duty, a little of Christ will go a long way, you shall have no lack.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
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.
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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