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The Story of Redemption
not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it
bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. And they
gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and
when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
“And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice
as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses. And he said unto them, This
is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy
Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake today, and
seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over, lay up for
you to be kept until the morning. And they laid it up till the morning
as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm
therein. And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a Sabbath unto
the Lord: today ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall
gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there
shall be none.”
The Lord is no less particular now in regard to His Sabbath than
when He gave the foregoing special directions to the children of
Israel. He required them to bake that which they would bake, and
seethe (that is, boil) that which they would seethe, on the sixth day,
preparatory to the rest of the Sabbath.
God manifested His great care and love for His people in send-
ing them bread from heaven. “Man did eat angels’ food”; that is,
food provided for them by the angels. The threefold miracle of the
manna—a double quantity on the sixth day, and none on the seventh,
and its keeping fresh through the Sabbath, while on other days it
would become unfit for use— was designed to impress them with
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the sacredness of the Sabbath.
After they were abundantly supplied with food, they were
ashamed of their unbelief and murmurings, and promised to trust
the Lord for the future, but they soon forgot their promise and failed
at the first trial of their faith.
Water From the Rock
They journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and pitched in
Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. “Where-
fore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that