Exodus 16:27
in Exodus 16Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.
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ASV
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.
KJV
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
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This verse in Exodus 16
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
There went out some of the people - This was an act of willful disobedience. It is remarkable, being the first violation of the express command, that it was not visited by a signal chastisement: the rest and peace of the “holy Sabbath” were not disturbed by a manifestation of wrath.
This site's exposition
there went out some of the people
on Exodus 16:27-28
Some go out on the seventh day anyway and find nothing, so the question is settled by an empty field rather than by a penalty. God's reply names commandments and laws in the plural at a point before Sinai, and readers have long divided over what those were. Some take them as the instructions given in this chapter, others as commands known from the fathers, and the verse itself does not say.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And it came to pass,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיְהִי֙ | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בַּיּ֣וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| יָצְא֥וּ | yatzeu | they went out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| מִן־ | min- | some of | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הָעָ֖ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| לִלְקֹ֑ט | lilkot | to gather [it] | H3950 → | 37 times |
| וְלֹ֖א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| מָצָֽאוּ׃ ס | matzau | they found [it] | H4672 → | 455 times |
וַֽיְהִי֙and it was
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
יָצְא֥וּthey went out
yatzeuH3318 →1067 times
מִן־some of
min-H4480 →1188 times
הָעָ֖םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
לִלְקֹ֑טto gather [it]
lilkotH3950 →37 times
וְלֹ֖אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
מָצָֽאוּ׃ סthey found [it]
matzauH4672 →455 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
it leads to
- Proverbs 10:4
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
- Proverbs 19:15
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
- Proverbs 13:4
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- Matthew 25:3–10
The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.
- Matthew 25:24–28
Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered…
- Proverbs 10:4
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About Exodus
This page draws on 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 Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).