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Exodus 16:30

in Exodus 16

So the people rested on the seventh day.

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So the people rested on the seventh day.

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So the people rested on the seventh day.

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This verse in Exodus 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

the Lord hath given you the sabbath

on Exodus 16:29-30

The day is described as something given, and the double portion on the sixth day is given because the rest is given. The restriction that follows, abide ye every man in his place, is read by most commentators as staying out of the field rather than staying indoors, and the later rabbinic sabbath limit on how far a man may walk is drawn from this verse. Verse 30 reports the people resting on the seventh day, which is the first rest the narrative records of anyone but God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So the people rested on the seventh day. Did not attempt to go out of their tents in quest of manna, as on other days, and observed it as a day of rest from labour, and so they continued to do in successive generations.

The words behind it

4 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁבְּת֥וּand they rested

    vaiyishbetuH7673 →71 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃<the> seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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

    Hebrews 4:9

    There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 2:10

      Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

    • Revelation 21:4

      ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”

    • Revelation 7:14–17

      “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the…

    • Hebrews 3:11

      So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

    • Isaiah 11:10

      On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

  • Through

    Leviticus 23:3

    For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 19:3

      Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

    • Exodus 23:12

      For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be…

    • 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…

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.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 16 →

This page draws on 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) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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