Exodus 16

Exodus 16:2

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured, &c.

Generally, there was a murmuring over the whole camp, of the most part of the Israelites, &c.

That he come not at all times unto the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark.

That he presume not to come oftener than once a year, into the Holy of Holies, which is within the vail; where God, in a special manner, manifesteth his presence, between the cherubims, in the mercy seat, the cover of the ark.

Exodus 16:4

Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.

Behold, I will cause that, which shall be instead of bread, to rain, as it were, out of the clouds upon you.

Exodus 16:8

This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full.

Forasmuch as you have murmured, both for flesh and for bread, therefore you shall be filled with both: in the evening shall quails, the daintiest flesh, fall upon your tents; and in the morning, manna.

Exodus 16:10

And, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

And the glory of God shewed itself in an extraordinary manner in the cloud, that was wont to appear to them.

Exodus 16:15

This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

They said one to another, This is a strange food, prepared and given us from above; for they knew not particularly what it was, or what to name it.

Exodus 16:18

And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

And, having put their common gatherings together into one heap, it was equally divided amongst them; so as he, that had gathered much, had no more than an omer, and he, that gathered little, wanted nothing of it.

Exodus 16:19

And hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

The sins and infirmities of God’s people, in their devotions, do, in a sort, defile the holy place and altar: the High Priest shall thus expiate those sins of the people, which have polluted the place and vessels of God’s service.

Exodus 16:22

And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited.

As the slain goat shall represent Christ dying for sin; so the escaping goat shall represent him freed from death, for our full justification, and taking away the sins of the world, so, as that they shall not appear in the sight of God to their condemnation.

Exodus 16:29

On the tenth day, ye shall afflict your souls.

It shall be a day of great and solemn humiliation, in fasting and all kind of sad and penitential devotion.

Exodus 16:34

So Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept.

So Aaron, in process of time, when the tabernacle was erected, laid it up before the Ark, which testified God’s presence to his people, to be reserved for a monument of God’s miraculous provision for Israel.

Exodus 16:36

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

The omer is the tenth part of the Jewish bushel, which contained about three pecks.