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Exodus 16:17

Exodus 16:17
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the children of Israel did so,.... They went out of the camp in the morning when it was fallen, and gathered it; which is expressive of believers going out of the camp, leaving the world, and all…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Some more, some less - It is evidently implied that the people were in part at least disobedient and failed in this first trial.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Some more, some less - According to their respective families, an omer for a man; and according to the number of infirm persons whose wants they undertook to supply.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 16:13-21

Now they begin to be provided for by the immediate hand of God.

I. He makes them a feast, at night, of delicate fowl, feathered fowl (Psa 78:27), therefore not locusts, as some think; quails, or…