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Notwithstanding they didn`t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
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A Supernatural Sign
Commentators unanimously agree that the manna spoiling overnight was a supernatural event, not a natural process. Scholars like Ellicott and Barnes point out that this was a divine punishment for disobedience, proven by the fact that the manna gathered for the Sabbath did not spoil. It was a clear sign of God's direct involvement and displeasure.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It bred worms — This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.
19th Century
Anglican
It bred worms.—On the Sabbath it bred no worms (Exodus 16:24), so that we must view the result spoken of as a punishme…
Baptist
He had told them that it would be so, but they evidently did not accept the message that he had delivered to them as the very Word of Jehovah their…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Notwithstanding they did not listen to Moses That is, not all of them, some of them did, and perhaps the far greater…
At evening the quails came up, and the people caught with ease as many as they needed. The manna came down in dew. They called it —Manna, Manhu,— w…
