Eat it today, Moses said, because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any on the ground today. The Sabbath is defined by the absence of manna on the ground: today you will not find any. The absence is the Sabbath's defining feature in the manna economy — the day is set apart by the fact that what is normally available is not available. The practice of Sabbath requires trust that the double portion from the sixth day is sufficient. Those who rest on the Sabbath must trust that God's provision for six days is enough for seven. Mark 2:27 records Jesus saying the Sabbath was made for humanity, not humanity for the Sabbath. The Sabbath the manna institutes is exactly this: a day made for human flourishing through rest, grounded in trust that God's provision is sufficient without daily labor.

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