Exodus 16:28
 Exodus 16:28 
New International Version (©2011)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD asked Moses, "How long will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the LORD asked Moses, "How long will you people refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?

NET Bible (©2006)
So the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to do what I have commanded and instructed you to do?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

American King James Version
And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws?

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'How long have ye refused to keep My commands, and My laws?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:22-31 Here is mention of a seventh-day sabbath. It was known, not only before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, even from the beginning, Ge 2:3. The setting apart one day in seven for holy work, and, in order to that, for holy rest, was ever since God created man upon the earth, and is the most ancient of the Divine laws. Appointing them to rest on the seventh day, he took care that they should be no losers by it; and none ever will be losers by serving God. On that day they were to fetch in enough for two days, and to make it ready. This directs us to contrive family affairs, so that they may hinder us as little as possible in the work of the sabbath. Works of necessity are to be done on that day; but it is desirable to have as little as may be to do, that we may apply ourselves the more closely to prepare for the life that is to come. When they kept manna against a command, it stank; when they kept it by a command, it was sweet and good; every thing is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. On the seventh day God did not send the manna, therefore they must not expect it, nor go out to gather. This showed that it was produced by miracle.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. - How long refuse ye to keep my commandments! Though Moses is addressed, it is the people who are blamed. Hence the plural verb, "refuse ye." Already there had been one act of disobedience in connection with the manna (see ver. 20) - now there was another - when would such sinful folly come to an end? When would the people learn that they could gain nothing by disobedience? It was "long" indeed before they were taught the lesson.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Who had seen and taken notice of what those men had done, who went out into the field to seek for manna on the seventh day, and was displeased with it, and therefore spoke to Moses out of the cloud:

how long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? this is not said merely with respect to their breach of the commandment of the sabbath, as if they had long refused to observe and keep that; whereas that was but one command, and but just given; but upon their breach of that, he takes occasion to upbraid them with their former transgressions of other laws of his, and which they had continued in, or at least were frequently committing; and which was a proof of their perverseness and rebellion against him, though he was so kind and bountiful to them.


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The Sabbath Observed
27And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 28And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See, for that the LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide you every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. …

Exodus 16:27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.
Exodus 16:29 Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out."
2 Kings 17:14 But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the LORD their God.
Psalm 78:10 they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
Psalm 106:13 But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his plan to unfold.