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They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. See also: Numbers 33:10-12Exodus 17:1Exodus 15:27The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; See also: Exodus 15:241 Corinthians 10:10Psalms 106:7and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” See also: Numbers 11:4-5Exodus 17:3Numbers 20:3-5Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. See also: 1 Corinthians 10:3Psalms 78:24-25Psalms 105:40It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” See also: Exodus 16:22-23Leviticus 25:21-22Exodus 35:2-3Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt. See also: Exodus 6:7Exodus 16:12-13Numbers 16:28In the morning, you shall see the LORD’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD. Who are we, that you murmur against us?” See also: Isaiah 40:5Numbers 16:11John 11:40Moses said, “Now the LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.” See also: Romans 13:21 Samuel 8:7Luke 10:16Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.’” See also: Numbers 16:16Exodus 16:2Exodus 16:8As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the LORD’s glory appeared in the cloud. See also: Exodus 16:7Numbers 16:19Numbers 16:42The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’” See also: Joel 3:17Ezekiel 39:22Exodus 6:7In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. See also: Numbers 11:9Psalms 78:27-28Psalms 105:40When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. See also: Psalms 78:24Numbers 11:7-9Nehemiah 9:15When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. See also: Exodus 16:4John 6:31-32John 6:58This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’” See also: Exodus 16:36Exodus 16:18Exodus 16:32-33The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less. When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating. See also: 2 Corinthians 8:14-15Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.” See also: Exodus 23:18Exodus 12:10Matthew 6:34Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. See also: Luke 12:33Mark 3:5Luke 12:15They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. See also: John 12:35Proverbs 6:6-11Ecclesiastes 9:10On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. See also: Exodus 16:5Leviticus 25:22Exodus 16:16He said to them, “This is that which the LORD has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’” See also: Leviticus 23:3Exodus 20:8-11Exodus 31:15They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it. See also: Exodus 16:20Exodus 16:33Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field. See also: Exodus 16:23Exodus 16:29Nehemiah 9:14Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.” See also: Exodus 20:9-11Deuteronomy 5:13Ezekiel 46:1On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. See also: Proverbs 20:4The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? See also: Psalms 78:10Psalms 106:132 Kings 17:14Behold, because the LORD 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.” See also: Isaiah 58:13-14Exodus 31:13Ezekiel 20:12So the people rested on the seventh day. See also: Hebrews 4:9Leviticus 23:3Deuteronomy 5:12-14The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. See also: Numbers 11:6-9Song of Songs 2:3Exodus 16:15Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” See also: Psalms 105:5Psalms 111:4-5Luke 22:19Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.” See also: Hebrews 9:4As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. See also: Exodus 25:16Exodus 27:21Exodus 25:21The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. See also: Joshua 5:12Nehemiah 9:20-21Deuteronomy 8:2-3Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah. See also: Exodus 16:16Exodus 16:32-33
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 16:1
Ver. 1. Sin, after they had encamped on the Red Sea. Num. xxxiii. 10. The 33d station was also in the desert of Sin, or Cades. But that is far remote from this desert. Num. xx. 1. C. --- Month of May, Jiar. Their provisions lasted a whole month. On their failure, they presently have recourse to murmurs.
↑ 1Exodus 16:3
Ver. 3. Over, greedily feasting on the most nutritive meats. H.
↑ 3Exodus 16:4
Ver. 4. Prove. Show by experience. Therefore he orders the Hebrews to gather manna only for one day, except on Friday. Many suppose that this bread of angels began to fall on Sunday, (v.
22. Origen. hom. 7.) or on Friday. C.
↑ 4Exodus 16:5
Ver. 5. Provide. Hence, this day was called Parasceve, or the day of preparation.
↑ 5Exodus 16:7
Ver. 7. Morning, when manna fell, as quails were brought the former evening, v.
12. and 13.
These fresh instances of protection might, convince them that they had not been imposed upon by Moses in leaving Egypt. M.
↑ 7Exodus 16:8
Ver. 8. Lord. All rebellion against lawful authority is resented by God. D.
↑ 8Exodus 16:9
Ver. 9. Before, to the place appointed for public worship. C. xxxii. 7. C.
↑ 9Exodus 16:12
Ver. 12. Say. Similar promises are often repeated, to appease the seditious mob. H.
↑ 12Exodus 16:13
Ver. 13. Quails. All the Oriental languages express these birds by solaem, though some have asserted, that pheasants or locusts are here meant.
Josephus (Ant. 3. 1) informs us, that great flocks of quails are found about the gulph of Arabia. They return to Europe from the warmer regions, about the beginning of May, at which time God directed the course of vast multitudes to the camp of Israel. Hesychius says, the chennion, a smaller species of quails, was salted and dried, as the Hebrews did theirs. Num. xi. 32. See Ps. lxxvii. 26.
C. --- Dew, upon which lay the miraculous bread, around the camp. None fell within, as the place was not sufficiently clean. M.
↑ 13Exodus 16:15
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 15. Manhu. S. Jerom adds the explanation, (D.) which is almost universally adopted, though some pretend that man, even in Chaldee, means who, and not what? Calmet refers them to Ps. lx. 7. for a proof of the contrary. Manna is found in various parts of the world, the best in Arabia. But this was of a different nature, and wholly miraculous, falling every day, except Saturday, throughout the 40 years that the Hebrews dwelt in the desert. It melted with the heat of the sun, (v. 21,) though it would bear the fire, and might be made into cakes, which cannot be done with the Arabian manna. It filled the mouth of God's servants with the most delightful tastes, (Wisd. xvi. 20,) while the wicked were disgusted with it. Num. xi. 6. --- Our soul is dry,
&c. It is called the bread of angels, being made or brought by their ministry, and of such a quality, that they would desire nothing better, if they stood in need of food. C. --- Whatever a man gathered, he had only a gomor full, and this sufficed for young and old, sick and healthy; if any was kept over the night it became corrupt, except that which was reserved for Saturday, and that which was preserved in the ark for a memorial for several hundred years. W. ---
Yet this wonderful bread was only a figure of that which Jesus Christ promised to give, (S. John vi.) and as the figure must come beneath the reality, (Col. ii.) what we receive in the blessed Eucharist, must undoubtedly be something better than manna. Would Zuinglius and Calvin attempt then to persuade us, that Christ appointed their mere sacramental bread, to supersede and excel the favour of manna granted to the fathers, who are dead? Mere bread cannot stand in competition with this miraculous food. But the truth which it foreshewed, according to all the doctors of the Church, I mean the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, in the blessed sacrament, under the appearances of bread and wine, are surely more excellent than manna itself. It is miraculously brought upon our altars by the words of Jesus Christ, spoken by his priests at Mass, and dispensed to infinite multitudes, in the most distant places from each other, and even in the smallest particle. H. --- It giveth grace in this life, and glory in the next, and this in proportion to each one's disposition. To the wicked it may appear contemptible, but to the servants of God it is the most delightful and supersubstantial. W. --- Button allows that the Protestant version of this verse "seems to make Moses guilty of a contradiction. It is manna, for they wist not what it was.
But the Sept. (he might add the Vulg. also) translate it according to the original." H.
↑ 15Exodus 16:18
Ver. 18. Eat. Each one's provision was just enough to fill a gomor; (M.) or those who had collected more, gave to those who wanted. 2 Cor. viii. 15. Any one might take less. C.
↑ 18Exodus 16:20
Ver. 20. Putrified. So God was pleased to punish their diffidence in Providence.
H.
↑ 20Exodus 16:21
Ver. 21. Morning. Wisd. xvi. 28, we find the reason of this ordinance, which enforces diligence, and was a constant admonition to bless God without delay.
H. --- It melted, that it might not be trodden under foot by the profane. M.
↑ 21Exodus 16:22
Ver. 22. Told Moses, wishing to know why God had given this injunction.
↑ 22Exodus 16:29
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 29. Place. Onkelos allows a person to travel 2000 cubits on the sabbath.
Some heretics understand this literally, and would not alter the posture in which they were found by the festival.
Orig. Philos. 1.
↑ 29Exodus 16:31
Ver. 31. Manna. This miraculous food, with which the children of Israel were nourished and supported during their sojourning in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life, which we receive in the blessed sacrament, for the food and nourishment of our souls, during the time of our mortal pilgrimage, till we come to our eternal home, the true land of promise: where we shall keep an everlasting sabbath: and have no further need of sacraments. Ch. --- Seed in size, but white; whereas the seed of coriander is black. M. --- Sam. "like a grain of rice." --- Honey, or oil.
Num. xi. 8. C. --- This was the usual taste. But if any one liked another better, the manna assumed it. Wisd. xvi. 20. M.
↑ 31Exodus 16:33
Ver. 33. A vessel, "a golden urn," as the Sept. and S. Paul (Heb. ix. 4,) express it. This was placed in the tabernacle, where the Hebrews met to pray, till the ark was made. C.
↑ 33Exodus 16:35
Ver. 35. Land. Manna was withdrawn as soon as usual food could be easily procured. H. --- In this desert of the world, we are supported by the sacraments. As manna fell in the night, so the mysteries of faith are concealed from the curious researches of men. It melted with the sunbeams; so mysteries confound the idle attempts of those who would fathom their impenetrable depth. Those who ate manna died, but the worthy receiver of the blessed sacrament will live for ever. C.
↑ 35License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses