EXODUS 16:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.”
He said to them: this is what the Lord commanded. Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning. The Sabbath is named — shabbat — for the first time in Scripture. Before Sinai, before the Ten Commandments, before the formal covenant of Exodus 24, the Sabbath is instituted through the rhythm of the manna. The manna Sabbath precedes the Sinai Sabbath, grounding the law in lived experience rather than abstract command. What God commands in Exodus 20:8 is the formalization of what the manna has already taught: one day in seven is different, holy, set apart. The instruction to bake and boil on the sixth day and save the rest for the Sabbath is practical — no cooking required on the day of rest.
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