was an old Diſcale in them, to diſobey God's Precepts, and to pol- lute his Sabbaths. L . 29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the ſabbath p, therefore he giveth you on the ſixth dayuthe bread of two days : abide ye every man in his place : let no man go out of his place q on the ſeventh. day. | p Hath given to you, and to your Fathers, that great command and priviledge of the Sabbath. q Our of his Houſe or Tent into the Fiel1 to gather Manna, as appears from the occaſion and reaſon of the Law bere before mentioned. For otherwiſe they might andought to go out of their Houſes to the Publick Aſſemblies, as appears from Levit: 23: 3: Affs 15:21: and to lead their Cattel to watering, Luke 13: 15: or to help them out of a Pit, Matth: 12: 11. Anda Sabbath days Journey was permitted, 4&#s 1: 12. 309 So the people reſted r on the ſeventh day. 7 Orceaſed, to wit, from gathering Mama, by comparing this with Perſe 27. and conſequently from all works of that nature. 21 And the houſe of Iſrael called the name thereof Manna : and * it as like coriander-ſeed s, white : and
the taſte of it * was like wafers made with honey.
' 5 In Shape and Figure, but not in Colour, for that is dark colour- ed, bur this white, as it follows here, like Bdelium, 8c. Nam: 11: 7. 5 When it was raw ; but when it was dreſt it was like freſh Oy], Numb: 11: 8. : :
2 © And Moſes ſaid, This zs the thing which the LORD commandeth : Fill an omer of itto be kept for your generations, that they may ſee the bread where- With 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. # In the Tabernacle, and by the Ark, when they ſhall be builr, preſent in the place where you meet for the Solemn Worſhip of God. . 24 As the LORD commanded Moſes, ſo Aaron laid
it up before the teſtimony x, to be kepr.
.x (ie. ) Before the Ark, which is called, the ark of the teſtimony, Exod: 25: 16: and here, by way of Abbreviation, the Teſtimony, or Witneſs, becauſe-ih it were the Tables of the Covenant, er the Law of God, which was a Teſtimony of God's Authority and Will, and of Man's SubjeQion and Duty, or of the Covenant made between God and Man, See Deut: 10: 5: and 31: 26. Queft, Hew could this be laid up before the Ark, when the Ark was nor yet built ? Anſ. This Text only tells us that Aaron did lay it.up,. but it doth not determine the time, nor afficm tha it was done at this inſtant, but rather intimates the contrery, and that. it was done afrerwards when the Teſtimony, i. e. the Ark was buile. As'the next Verſe alſo ſpeaks of what was done in-the following forty years
35 And the children ; years, *-until they came to a land inhabited: they did i (nn until they came to the borders of the land of C
y This Moſes might well write ; for though he did not go into Canaan,yet he came to the Borders of Canaan. And though he did not ſce the Ceflition of the Manna, yer he fufficiently knew both from the Nature of the Thing, and by Revelation from God, that it would forthwith ceaſe upon their entrance into Canaan. -2
26 Now an omer is the tenth part of an Ephah. | C HeA ÞP, XVII The children of Iſrael came to Rephidim, there is no water, therefore murmur againſt Moſes, 1— 3. Moſes crieth to the Lord, 4. The Lord ſendeth Moſes to Horeb; he fmiteth the rock, and water cometh out, 5, 6- He names that place, and the reaſon of it, 7. Amalek warreth againſt the Iſratlites, $. Moſes appointeth Joſbua to fight with him, 9g. YJeſbua's facreſs when Moſes held up his hand ; when let down, Amalek prevailed, I1—13, Moſes buildeth an altar, and nameth it, 15. The reaſon of
if, 16. A N D all the congregation of the children of Iſrael £4 X journeyed from the wilderneſs of Sin after their journeys 4, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim : and here was no
' awater for the people to drink.
| . fault, and murmuriag againſt
' ſhall I do, unto: this people ? they be
# By..divers Stations, recorded Numb: 33: 12, 13, &c. but here
omitted; becauſe. there was nothing extraordinary hapned in them. b Engoeyed either by word of mouth, or by the motion or reſt of the clondy Pillar, Exod. 13:21. { ea ; 2 Wherefore the* people did chide with Moſes, and faid, Give us water that we may drink. And Moſes ſaid unto them, Why chide you with me ? Wherefore do ye *.zempt the LORD « ? |
c By diftruſting God's Power, and Providence, and Faithfulneſs, and Gobdneſs, upon ſuch a ſmall occaſion, 'by refuling to ſubmir to God's Will, and ro wait upon him by humble and fervent Prayers fof relief,” and inſtead thereof quarrelling with 'me as ifit were my nſt God under my name. |
' 2 And the people thirfted there for water, and che people murmured againſt Moſes, and ſaid, Wherefore is this, that thou haſt brought us up out of Egypt, tokill. usand'otrchildren;: and our cattel wiachthirſt ?
4 &And:Moſes cried unto the LORD, ſaying, What almoſt ready to
ne me. 2 T£8. > ic 5 And the LORD ſaid unto Moſes, Go on before +,;:
tho pebple; and take with thee of the eldersof IHrael 4; and-thy-rod
in thire hand, and go.
of Ifrael did eat Manna forty.
d That they may be eye witneſſes of this glorious Work,and may report it to the people. e Either the Rea-Sza ; for an Arm of the Sea is ſometimes called a River; or, the River Ns.
6 * Behold, I will ſtand before thee there fupon the « ,, ,. rock in Horeb g, and thou ſhalt ſmice the rock, and -c: 9: there ſhall water come out of it, that the people may P:al: 78: drink. And Moſes did ſo h, in the ſight of the elders "5 ”— 4
of Iſrael. Wii:
fIn my cloudy Pilar, which ſhall ſtand over that place. - g Horeb , ,. ,. and Sinai are ſometimes ſpoken of as the ſame place, and ſometimes as two differing places, as here compared with Exod: 19. 2. The Learned write, that this was one long Mountain, whereof there were two eminent Parts or Tops, the one at a conſiderable diſtance from the other, and Horeb was the firſt part ofir, and near Rephidim and Shai the more remote, to which they came afterwards. þ ( 7. e. } Smore the Rock, and the Waters flowed out plentifully and conti- nually, making a River, which God cauſed to follow rhem to their ſeveral Stations. See x Cor. 10. 4+
7 And he called the name of the place + Maſſah, +That is, and + Meribah, -becaufe of the chiding of the children 7727-07.