On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
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On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
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And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.
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Passages linked to Exodus 16:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Their infidelity was so great, that they did expressly…
Their infidelity was so great, that they did expressly against God’s commandment.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 16:27 And it came to pass, [that] there…
Exo 16:27 And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Ver. 27. And it came to pass.] {See Trapp on "Exo 16:20"} Some unruly beasts, masterless monsters, will be breaking over the hedge: but the law will hamper them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Who had seen…
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Who had seen and taken notice of what those men had done, who went out into the field to seek for manna on the seventh day, and was displeased with it, and therefore spoke to Moses out of the cloud:
how long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? this is not said merely with respect to their breach of the commandment of the sabbath, as if they had long refused to observe and keep that; whereas that was but one command, and but just given; but upon their breach of that, he takes occasion to upbraid them with their former transgressions of other laws of his, and which they had continued in, or at least were frequently committing; and which was a proof of their perverseness and rebellion against him, though he was so kind and bountiful to them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain There went out some of the people - This…
There went out some of the people - This was an act of willful disobedience. It is remarkable, being the first violation of the express command, that it was not visited by a signal chastisement: the rest and peace of the “holy Sabbath” were not disturbed by a manifestation of wrath.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain
CHAPTER XVI.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There went out some of the people on the…
There went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather. There will always be some persons in a nation, or in a Church, who will refuse to believe God"s ministers, and even God himself. They persuade themselves that they "know better it will not be as announced it will be as they wish it to be. More especially is this so where the ideaof continuance comes in where some interruption of the ordinary course of things is announced, which they deem unlikely or impossible. Compare Gen_19:14.
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