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Exodus 16:31 KJV
Exodus · chapter 16 · verse 31
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.Exodus 16:31 · King James Version
Exodus 16:31 in context
29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- coriandergadcoriander seedH1407 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- waferstsappîychitha flat thin cakeH6838 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- Mannamânliterally a whatnessH4478 →
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We have here, 1. A plain intimation of the observing of a seventh day sabbath, not only before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and therefore, from the beginning, Gen 2:3.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-31