🔥WEB · Exodus 16:27

What does Exodus 16:27 mean?

"On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none."

— Exodus 16:27 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

24

They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.

25

Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.

26

Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”

27

On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

28

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

29

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

30

So the people rested on the seventh day.

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