Then Moses said to them: no one is to keep any of it until morning. The prohibition against overnight keeping establishes the daily dependence that is the manna's pedagogical purpose. The instruction does not say it is physically impossible to keep manna overnight — verse 20 shows it is possible, with unpleasant results. The prohibition is about faith, not physics: keeping manna overnight means not trusting God to provide again tomorrow. The same logic underlies the manna double portion on the sixth day and the absence of manna on the Sabbath: the rhythm of the manna week is the rhythm of a life structured around trust in God's daily provision. Matthew 6:25–34 is the New Testament version of the same logic: do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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