出埃及记 16:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們卻不聽摩西的話，有人把一些留到早晨，就生蟲發臭了。摩西就向他們發怒。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
然 而 他 们 不 听 摩 西 的 话 ， 内 中 有 留 到 早 晨 的 ， 就 生 虫 变 臭 了 ； 摩 西 便 向 他 们 发 怒 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. ¹⁴ When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost were on the desert ground. ¹⁵ When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, "What is it?" because they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, "This is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶ The Lord has commanded, ‘Each one of you must gather what he needs, about two quarts for every person in your family.'" ¹⁷ So the people of Israel did this; some people gathered much, and some gathered little. ¹⁸ Then they measured it. The person who gathered more did not have too much, nor did the person who gathered less have too little. Each person gathered just as much as he needed. ¹⁹ Moses said to them, "Don't keep any of it to eat the next day." ²⁰ But some of the people did not listen to Moses and kept part of it to eat the next morning. It became full of worms and began to stink, so Moses was angry with those people. ²¹ Every morning each person gathered as much food as he needed, but when the sun became hot, it melted away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bred worms: Matthew 6:19, Luke 12:15, Luke 12:33, Hebrews 13:5, James 5:2, James 5:3

and Moses: Numbers 12:3, Numbers 16:15, Mark 3:5, Mark 10:14, Ephesians 4:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:22 - General Exodus 16:24 - General Exodus 32:22 - knowest Leviticus 22:30 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses,.... That is, not all of them, some of them did, and perhaps the far greater part of them:

but some of them left it until the morning; out of distrust, for fear they should have none the next day; being men of little faith, that could not trust God for a supply for the morrow; the Targum of Jonathan says, these were Dathan and Abiram; and so Jarchi:

and it bred worms, and stank; or by an "hysteron proteron", and transposition of the words, the sense may be, that it stank, corrupted, and putrefied, and so produced worms, in which order the words lie, Exodus 16:24, and this was not from the nature of the manna to breed worms so soon, but God so ordering and disposing it, that it should do so; for otherwise it would keep to another day, as what was gathered on the sixth day kept to the seventh, and there was a part of it kept for many ages, see Exodus 16:24, and since the manna was of the meal kind, perhaps those worms it bred might be of the weevil sort, as Scheuchzer conjectures s:

and Moses was wroth with them; for breaking the commandment of God.

s Physica Sacra, vol. 2. p. 179.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It bred worms - This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 16:20. It bred worms — Their sinful curiosity and covetousness led them to make the trial; and they had a mass of the most loathsome putrefaction for their pains. How gracious is God! He is continually rendering disobedience and sin irksome to the transgressor; that finding his evil ways to be unprofitable, he may return to his Maker, and trust in God alone.