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Exodus 16:22

in Exodus 16

On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

KJV

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.

This verse in Exodus 16

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

On the sixth day they gathered twice as much - This they did that they might have a provision for the Sabbath, for on that day no manna fell, Exo 16:26, Exo 16:27. What a convincing miracle was this! No manna fell on the Sabbath! Had it been a natural production it would have fallen on the Sabbath as at other times; and had there not been a supernatural influence to keep it sweet and pure, it would have been corrupted on the Sabbath as well as on other days.

This site's exposition

they gathered it every morning

on Exodus 16:21-22

The window is short, since what is left on the ground when the sun waxes hot melts away. On the sixth day twice as much comes up and the rulers of the congregation come and tell Moses about it, which means the people had not been told what God said to him at verse 5. The double portion arrives before anyone knows what it is for.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The setting apart of one day in seven for holy work, and, in order to that, for holy rest, was a divine appointment ever since God created man upon the earth, and the most ancient of positive laws. The way of sabbath-sanctification is the good old way.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.
Twice as much bread - See Exo 16:5. From this passage and from Exo 16:5 it is inferred that the seventh day was previously known to the people as a day separate from all others, and if so, it must have been observed as an ancient and primeval institution.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֣י׀and it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH31172304 times

  • הַשִּׁשִּׁ֗י<the> sixth

    hashishiH834528 times

  • לָֽקְט֥וּthey gathered

    laketuH395037 times

  • לֶ֙חֶם֙bread of

    lechemH3899298 times

  • מִשְׁנֶ֔הdouble

    mishnehH4932

  • שְׁנֵ֥י<the> two

    sheneiH8147768 times

  • הָעֹ֖מֶר<the> omer[s]

    haomerH601614 times

  • לָאֶחָ֑דfor the one

    laechadH259971 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙and they came

    vaiyavouH9352568 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • נְשִׂיאֵ֣י[the] leaders of

    nesieiH5387134 times

  • הָֽעֵדָ֔הthe congregation

    haedahH5712149 times

  • וַיַּגִּ֖ידוּand they told

    vaiyagiduH5046370 times

  • לְמֹשֶֽׁה׃to Moses

    lemoshehH4872765 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 16:16

    This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 16:36

      (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

    • Exodus 16:18

      When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

  • Through

    Exodus 16:5

    Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 16:22–23

      On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

    • Leviticus 25:21–22

      But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

    • Exodus 35:2–3

      For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put…

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:12

    For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 25:6–7

      Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:22

    While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 19:29

      And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third…

  • Through

    Exodus 34:31

    But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 3:15

      God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My…

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.