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(1.) Disobedience, even in a small matter, is very provoking.
(2.) God is jealous for the honour of his Sabbaths. If walking out on the sabbath to seek for food was thus reproved, walking out on that day purely to find our own pleasure cannot be justified.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the
seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he
giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days: abide ye 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. 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
was 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.
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.
God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told,
How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot, as we are told (Heb 9:4), and kept before the testimony, or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Ex 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standing miracle, and therefore the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. "Posterity shall see the bread," says God, "wherewith I have fed you in the