Exodul 16:20

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

N'au ascultat de Moise, şi s'au găsit unii, care au lăsat ceva din ea pînă dimineaţa; dar a făcut viermi şi s'a împuţit. Moise s'a mîniat pe oamenii aceia.

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.