(KJV) Exodus 161

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⥃Manna and Quail from Heaven

[1] And they took2 their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin3, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.4 [2] And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:5 [3] And the children of Israel said unto them, Would6 to God we had7 died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh8 pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill9 this whole assembly with hunger10.

[4] [¶]Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain11 bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day12, that I may prove them13, whether they will walk in my law, or no. [5] And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare14 [that] which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. [6] And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even15, then ye shall know that the Lord16 hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: [7] And in the morning17, then ye shall18 see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what [are] we19, that ye murmur against us? [8] And Moses said, [This shall be], when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth20 your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against21 the Lord.

[9] [¶]And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near22 before the Lord: for he hath heard23 your murmurings. [10] And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they24 looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared25 in the cloud.

[11] [¶]And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [12] I have26 heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even27 ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning28 ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know29 that I [am] the Lord your God. [13] And it came to pass, that at even the quails30 came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew31 lay round about the host. [14] And when the dew32 that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost33 on the ground. [15] And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna34: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is35] the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

[16] [¶]This [is] the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer36 for every man37, [according to] the number of your persons38; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents. [17] And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. [18] And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.39 [19] And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.40 [20] Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms41, and stank: and Moses42 was wroth with them. [21] And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.43

⥃The Sabbath Observed [ Genesis 2:1–3 † Hebrews 4:1–11 ]

[22] And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.444546474849505152535455 [23] And he said unto them, This [is that] which the Lord hath said, To morrow [is] the rest56 of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake57 [that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. [24] And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.58 [25] And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field.59 [26] Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.60

[27] [¶]And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none61. [28] And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?62 [29] See, for that the Lord hath given63 you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye64 every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. [30] So the people rested on the seventh day.65

⥃The Jar of Manna

[31] And the house of Israel called the name66 thereof Manna: and it [was67] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.

[32] And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.68 [33] 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.69 [34] As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.70 [35] And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years71, until they came to72 a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders73 of the land of Canaan. [36] Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah. 74

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  1. Exod 16:1, The Israelites come to Sin, and murmur for want of bread; Exod 16:4, God promises them bread and flesh from heaven, and they are rebuked; Exod 16:13, Quails and manna are sent; Exod 16:16, The ordering of manna; Exod 16:25, It was not to be found on the sabbath; Exod 16:32, An omer of it is preserved. ↩

  2. Exod 15:27; Num 33:10-12 ↩

  3. This desert was traversed by Dr. Shaw in nine hours. He was all the day diverted by varieties of lizards and vipers, which abound there. Exod 17:1; Num 33:12; Ezek 30:15-16 ↩

  4. am 2513, bc 1491, An, Ex, Is 1, Ijar ↩

  5. Exod 15:24; Gen 19:4; Ps 106:7, Ps 106:13, Ps 106:25; 1Cor 10:10 ↩

  6. Num 20:3-5; Deut 28:67; Josh 7:7; 2Sam 18:33; Lam 4:9; Acts 26:29; 1Cor 4:8; 2Cor 11:1 ↩

  7. Num 11:15, Num 14:2; Job 3:1, Job 3:10, Job 3:20; Jer 20:14-18; Jonah 4:8-9 ↩

  8. Exod 2:23; Num 11:4-5 ↩

  9. Exod 5:21, Exod 17:3; Num 16:13, Num 16:41 ↩

  10. Deut 8:3; Jer 2:6; Lam 4:9 ↩

  11. Ps 78:24-25, Ps 105:40; John 6:31-32; 1Cor 10:3 ↩

  12. Heb. the portion of a day in his day, Neh 11:23; Prov 30:8; Matt 6:11, Matt 6:32-33; Luke 11:3 ↩

  13. Exod 15:25; Deut 8:2, Deut 8:16; Josh 24:15 ↩

  14. Exod 16:23, Exod 35:2-3; Lev 25:21-22 ↩

  15. Exod 16:8, Exod 16:12-13 ↩

  16. Exod 16:3, Exod 6:7, Exod 12:51, Exod 32:1, Exod 32:7, Exod 32:11; Num 16:28, Num 16:30; Ps 77:20; Isa 63:11-12 ↩

  17. Exod 16:13 ↩

  18. Exod 16:10, Exod 24:10, Exod 24:16, Exod 40:34; Lev 9:6; Num 14:10, Num 16:42; Isa 35:2, Isa 40:5; John 11:4, John 11:40 ↩

  19. Exod 16:2-3, Exod 16:8; Num 16:11 ↩

  20. Exod 16:9, Exod 16:12; Num 14:27; Matt 9:4; John 6:41-43; 1Cor 10:10 ↩

  21. Num 21:7; 1Sam 8:7; Isa 32:6, Isa 37:29; Matt 10:40; Luke 10:16; John 13:20; Rom 13:2; 1Thess 4:8 ↩

  22. Num 16:16 ↩

  23. Exod 16:2, Exod 16:8 ↩

  24. Exod 16:7; Num 14:10, Num 16:19, Num 16:42 ↩

  25. Exod 13:21-22, Exod 40:34-38; Lev 9:6; Num 16:42; 1Kgs 8:10-11; Matt 17:5 ↩

  26. Exod 16:8 ↩

  27. Exod 16:6 ↩

  28. Exod 16:7 ↩

  29. Exod 4:5, Exod 6:7, Exod 7:17; Jer 31:24; Ezek 34:30, Ezek 39:22; Joel 3:17; Zech 13:9 ↩

  30. The Latin selav, Chaldee selaiv, Syriac and Arabic selwa, is without doubt the quail, so the LXX render it ορτυγομητρα, a large kind of quail. Josephus, ορτυξ, Ethopic, ferferat, and Vulgate, coturnices, quails, with which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petrζa and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish. Num 11:31-33; Ps 78:27-28, Ps 105:40 ↩

  31. Num 11:9 ↩

  32. Num 11:7-9; Deut 8:3; Neh 9:15; Ps 78:24, Ps 105:40 ↩

  33. Ps 147:16 ↩

  34. or, What is this, or, It is a portion, Exod 16:31, Exod 16:33; Deut 8:3, Deut 8:16; Josh 5:12; Neh 9:15, Neh 9:20; John 6:31-32, John 6:49, John 6:58; 1Cor 10:3; Heb 9:4; Rev 2:17 ↩

  35. Exod 16:4; Num 21:5; Prov 9:5; Luke 12:30 ↩

  36. Exod 16:18, Exod 16:33, Exod 16:36 ↩

  37. Heb. by the poll, or head ↩

  38. Heb. souls. ↩

  39. 2Cor 8:14-15 ↩

  40. Exod 12:10, Exod 23:18; Matt 6:34 ↩

  41. Matt 6:19; Luke 12:15, Luke 12:33; Heb 13:5; Jas 5:2-3 ↩

  42. Num 12:3, Num 16:15; Mark 3:5, Mark 10:14; Eph 4:26 ↩

  43. Prov 6:6-11; Eccl 9:10, Eccl 12:1; Matt 6:33; John 12:35; 2Cor 6:2 ↩

  44. What the substance called manna was, is utterly unknown, but, from the circumstances in the text, it is evident that it was not a natural production, but was miraculously sent by Jehovah. These the learned Abarbinel, a most judicious Jewish interpreter, has thus enumerated: ↩

    • The natural manna was never found in the desert where this fell where the common manna does fall;

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    • It is only in the spring time, in March and April, whereas this fell throughout all the months in the year;

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    • The ordinary manna does not melt in the sun, as this did (Exod 16:21);

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    • It does not stink and breed worms, as this did, when kept till the morning (Exod 16:20);

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    • It cannot be ground or beaten in a mortar, so as to make cakes, as this was;

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    • The common manna is medicinal and purgative, and cannot be used for food and nutriment, as this was;

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    • This fell in a double proportion on the sixth day, and not on the sabbath, as it certainly would have done had it fallen naturally;

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    • It followed them in all their journeys, where ever they pitched their tents; and

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    • It ceased at the very time of the year when the other falls, namely, in March, when the Israelites were come to Gilgal.

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  54. Whatever this substance was, it does not appear to have been common to the wilderness. From Deut 8:3, Deut 8:16, it is evident that the Israelites never saw it before; and from a pot of it being preserved, it is certain that nothing of the kind ever appeared again. ↩

  55. Exod 16:5, Exod 16:16; Lev 25:12, Lev 25:22 ↩

  56. Exod 20:8-11, Exod 31:15, Exod 35:3; Gen 2:2-3; Lev 23:3; Mark 2:27-28; Luke 23:56; Rev 1:10 ↩

  57. Num 11:8 ↩

  58. Exod 16:20, Exod 16:33 ↩

  59. Exod 16:23, Exod 16:29; Neh 9:14 ↩

  60. Exod 20:9-11; Deut 5:13; Ezek 46:1; Luke 13:14 ↩

  61. Prov 20:4 ↩

  62. Exod 10:3; Num 14:11, Num 20:12; 2Kgs 17:14; Ps 78:10, Ps 78:22, Ps 81:13-14, Ps 106:13; Isa 7:9, Isa 7:13; Jer 4:14, Jer 9:6; Ezek 5:6, Ezek 20:13, Ezek 20:16; Mark 9:19 ↩

  63. Exod 31:13; Neh 9:14; Isa 58:13-14; Ezek 20:12 ↩

  64. Luke 23:56 ↩

  65. Lev 23:3; Deut 5:12-14; Heb 4:9 ↩

  66. Exod 16:15 In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia teranjabin. ↩

  67. Num 11:6-7; Song 2:3 ↩

  68. Ps 103:1-2, Ps 105:5, Ps 111:4-5; Luke 22:19; Heb 2:1 ↩

  69. Heb 9:4 ↩

  70. Exod 25:16, Exod 25:21, Exod 27:21, Exod 30:6, Exod 30:36, Exod 31:18, Exod 38:21, Exod 40:20; Num 1:50, Num 1:53, Num 17:10; Deut 10:5; 1Kgs 8:9 ↩

  71. Num 33:38; Deut 8:2-3; Neh 9:15, Neh 9:20-21; Ps 78:24-25; John 6:30-58 ↩

  72. Josh 5:12 ↩

  73. Num 33:48-50; Deut 1:8, Deut 34:1-4 ↩

  74. Exod 16:16, Exod 16:32-33 ↩