Exodus 16:25

Staten Vertaling

Toen zeide Mozes: Eet dat heden, want het is heden de sabbat des HEEREN; gij zult het heden op het veld niet vinden.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen sprak Mozes: Eet dat heden, want het is heden de sabbat des Heren; gij zult het heden niet vinden op het veld.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
En Mozes zeide: Eet dit heden, want vandaag is het des Heeren sabbat; heden zult gij het op het veld niet vinden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:29, Nehemiah 9:14

Reciprocal: Romans 14:6 - regardeth it

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said, eat that today,.... That is, he said this on the seventh day in the morning, and bid them eat of it whether baked or seethed, or as it was, or just as they pleased; however, they had liberty to eat of it, and indeed they had no other, because none fell on this day:

for today is a sabbath unto the Lord; a time of rest from labour, and to be employed in the service of the Lord:

today ye shall not find it in the field: should they seek for it, which they had no occasion to do, since there was a sufficiency provided the day before; and this he said to prevent their going out to seek for it, which, if out of curiosity or for any other reason any of them should do, it would be in vain and fruitless.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Eat that today - The practical observance of the Sabbath was thus formally instituted before the giving of the law. The people were to abstain from the ordinary work of every day life: they were not to collect food, nor, as it would seem, even to prepare it as on other days.