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**journey.** The Egyptian kings of twelfth dynasty worked copper and turquoise mines in peninsula of Sinai. Afterward disused until eighteenth dynasty. Old roads left. See App-50 . on the forty years' wandering; and note on [Numbers 33:1](../../../kjv/numbers/33/1) .
**children** = sons.
**Sin.** Hebrew a bush.
**Sinai** = Bush of Jehovah. Sinai mentioned thirty-one times in Pentateuch, only four times in rest of Old Testament ([Judges 5:5](../../../kjv/judges/5/5) .[Nehemiah 9:13](../../../kjv/nehemiah/9/13) .[Psalms 68:8](../../../kjv/psalms/68/8) , [Psalms 68:17](../../../kjv/psalms/68/17) ); in New Testament four times ([Acts 7:30](../../../kjv/acts/7/30) , [Acts 7:38](../../../kjv/acts/7/38) . [Galatians 1:4](../../../kjv/galatians/1/4) , [Galatians 1:24](../../../kjv/galatians/1/24) , Gal 1:26 ).
**fifteenth day** . See App-50 .

**murmured** . Murmurings mentioned eight times in these verses: viz [Exodus 2:7](../../../kjv/exodus/2/7) , [Exodus 2:7](../../../kjv/exodus/2/7) , [Exodus 2:8](../../../kjv/exodus/2/8) , [Exodus 2:8](../../../kjv/exodus/2/8) , [Exodus 2:8](../../../kjv/exodus/2/8) , [Exodus 2:9](../../../kjv/exodus/2/9) , [Exodus 2:12](../../../kjv/exodus/2/12) .

**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**bread** . Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), put for all kinds of food ( App-6 ). not for water, because of [Exodus 15:27](../../../kjv/exodus/15/27) .

**said the LORD** . See notes on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) and [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) . Behold. Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**what . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**murmurings which ye murmur** . Figure of speech *Polyptoton.* App-6 . = your wicked or terrible murmurings.

**the LORD spake** . See note on [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) , and compare note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) .

**God** . Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 .

**host** = camp.

**small** = thin.
**round thing** = flakey.

**"It is manna".** Hebrew. *man-hu = "* What is that? for they knew not what 'that' was". See on [Exodus 16:31](../../../kjv/exodus/16/31) .
**wist** = knew. From Anglo-Saxon, *witan, to* know.
**it** = that.
**This** = that.

**man.** Hebrew ' *ish* . See App-14 .
**for every man** = for every skull. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part). App-6 . Skull put for person, as we say "per head".
**persons** . Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**it melted** . See note on [Numbers 14:9](../../../kjv/numbers/14/9) .

**rest of the [holy] sabbath** . Hebrew "a sabbath of sabbaths". Occurs seven times (see App-10 ). *Four* times of the weekly sabbath ([Exodus 16:23](../../../kjv/exodus/16/23) ; [Exodus 31:15](../../../kjv/exodus/31/15) ; [Exodus 35:2](../../../kjv/exodus/35/2) .[Leviticus 23:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/3); [Leviticus 23:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/3) ). *Twice of* the Day *of* Atonement ([Leviticus 16:31](../../../kjv/leviticus/16/31) ; [Leviticus 23:32](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/32) ). *Once of* the sabbath *of* years ([Leviticus 25:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/4) ).

**as** = according to what.

**the LORD said** . See note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) , and compare note on [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) .
**How long . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**See** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**seventh day** . See App-50 .

**the house of Israel** . (First occurrence.) The *Massorah* ( App-30 ) contains a list *of* all the occurrences of this expression. There are fourteen occurrences of this expression before the division *of* the nation into two kingdoms: [Exodus 16:31](../../../kjv/exodus/16/31) ; [Exodus 40:38](../../../kjv/exodus/40/38) . [Leviticus 10:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/6) ; [Leviticus 17:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/17/3) .[Numbers 20:29](../../../kjv/numbers/20/29) . Jos 21:45 . [1 Samuel 7:2](../../../kjv/1-samuel/7/2) , 1Sa 7:3 ; [2 Samuel 1:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/12) ; [2 Samuel 6:5](../../../kjv/2-samuel/6/5) , 2Sa 6:15 ; [2 Samuel 12:8](../../../kjv/2-samuel/12/8) ; [2 Samuel 16:3](../../../kjv/2-samuel/16/3) .[Ruth 4:11](../../../kjv/ruth/4/11) (compare [Exodus 19:3](../../../kjv/exodus/19/3) , note). "The house *of* Judah" also occurs four times. See its first occurance, [2 Samuel 2:4](../../../kjv/2-samuel/2/4) . See note on [1 Kings 12:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/17) .
**Manna.** Hebrew "What is that? "Seven characteristics: 1. Small = thin, [Exodus 16:14](../../../kjv/exodus/16/14) (Antitype, [Philippians 1:2](../../../kjv/philippians/1/2) , [Philippians 1:6-8](../../../kjv/philippians/1/6-8) ). 2. Round = flakey, [Exodus 16:14](../../../kjv/exodus/16/14) . 3. White, [Exodus 16:31](../../../kjv/exodus/16/31) . 4. Sweet, [Exodus 16:31](../../../kjv/exodus/16/31) ([Psalms 119:103](../../../kjv/psalms/119/103) .[Jeremiah 15:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/16); [Jeremiah 15:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/16) ). 5. Hard, [Numbers 11:8](../../../kjv/numbers/11/8) . 6. Melted, [Numbers 14:9](../../../kjv/numbers/14/9) . 7. From heaven (daily), [Exodus 16:13](../../../kjv/exodus/16/13) . See note on [Matthew 6:1](../../../kjv/matthew/6/1) .
**wafers** = flat-cake.

**omer** . See App-51 .

**a** = one.

**the Testimony** = the Ark. Figure of speech *Hysterologia.* App-6 . The ark not yet made.

**did eat manna** . The repetition (for emphasis) is the Figure of speech *Epibole* ( App-6 ).
**forty years** . Compare [Joshua 5:6](../../../kjv/joshua/5/6) , [Joshua 5:11](../../../kjv/joshua/5/11) , [Joshua 5:12](../../../kjv/joshua/5/12) . Figure of speech *Hysterologia* ( App-6 ), a prior mention of a subsequent event.
**until they came** . Given on 16th Ziph, B.C. 1491, ceased 16th Ziph, B.C. 1461 = 39 years 11 months. See [Joshua 5:12](../../../kjv/joshua/5/12) . See App-60 .

**an omer is the tenth part of an ephah** . This is not to be confused with [Ezekiel 45:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/45/11) , "an ephah is the tenth part of an homer". They are two different
**words** : in [Exodus 16:36](../../../kjv/exodus/16/36) it is ` *omen,* in [Ezekiel 45:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/45/11) it is *homer.* See note on [Leviticus 27:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/27/16) , and App-51 .

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