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Exodus 16:23
New English Translation
Exodus 16:23
New English Translation
23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work,[a] a holy Sabbath[b] to the Lord. Whatever you want to[c] bake, bake today;[d] whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
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- Exodus 16:23 tn The noun שַׁבָּתוֹן (shabbaton) has the abstract ending on it: “resting, ceasing.” The root word means “cease” from something, more than “to rest.” The Law would make it clear that they were to cease from their normal occupations and do no common work.
- Exodus 16:23 tn The technical expression is now used: שַׁבַּת־קֹדֶשׁ (shabbat qodesh, “a holy Sabbath”) meaning a “cessation of/for holiness” for Yahweh. The rest was to be characterized by holiness.
- Exodus 16:23 tn The two verbs in these objective noun clauses are desiderative imperfects—“bake whatever you want to bake.”
- Exodus 16:23 tn The word “today” is implied from the context.
Exodus 16:23
King James Version
Exodus 16:23
King James Version
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
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