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Exodus 16:26

in Exodus 16

For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

KJV

Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

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This verse in Exodus 16

Commentary

5 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

Eat it today

on Exodus 16:25-26

What was set aside overnight did not spoil, so the sixth day's work feeds the seventh day's rest. The instruction adds that today you will not find anything in the field, so the rest holds because nothing is there.

This site's exposition

on the seventh day, the Sabbath

Here the seventh day and the Sabbath are named as one. John Wesley reads the chapter as a sign of a seventh-day Sabbath kept from the beginning, before Israel left Egypt. Albert Barnes holds that its practical observance was formally instituted here, before the law was given at Sinai.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Six days ye shall gather it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This showed that it was not produced by natural causes, and that it was designed for a confirmation of the divine authority of the law which was to be given by Moses.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • שֵׁ֥שֶׁתsix

    sheshetH8337 →216 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּyou will gather it

    tilketuhuH3950 →37 times

  • וּבַיּ֧וֹםand on the day

    uvaiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִ֛י<the> seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

  • שַׁבָּ֖תa sabbath

    shabatH7676 →110 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִֽהְיֶה־it will be

    yihyeh-H1961 →3559 times

  • בּֽוֹ׃in <the> it

    bo

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 20:9–11Six days you shall labor and do all your work,4 worksDeuteronomy 5:13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,3 worksEzekiel 46:1“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.3 worksExodus 31:15For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.3 worksLuke 13:14But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”2 works

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

    Luke 13:14

    But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:9

      Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • John 9:14–16

      Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

    • Matthew 12:2

      When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

    • John 5:15–16

      And the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

    • Luke 6:7

      Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 46:1

    “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 66:23

      From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

    • Ezekiel 44:1–2

      The man then brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faced east, but it was shut.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 5:13

    Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:12

      I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 16 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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