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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 16:20
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses, etc.] 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, (<021624>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 <021624>Exodus 16:24-33), and since the manna was of the meal kind, perhaps those worms it bred might be of the weevil sort, as Scheuchzer conjectures f525: and Moses was wroth with them; for breaking the commandment of God.
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