Exodus 16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.

English Standard Version
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept.

New American Standard Bible
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.

King James Bible
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

International Standard Version
So Aaron placed it before the Testimony to be kept, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

American Standard Version
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

Darby Bible Translation
As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so Aaron deposited it before the Testimony, to be kept.

Young's Literal Translation
as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge.

Cross References

Exodus 25:16
And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

Exodus 25:21
And you shall put the mercy seat above on the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.

Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Exodus 40:20
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark:

Numbers 17:10
And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and you shall quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:32-36 God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, the remembrance of it was to be preserved. Eaten bread must not be forgotten. God's miracles and mercies are to be had in remembrance. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Mt 4:4. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Re 2:17. These come from heaven, as the manna did, and are the support and comfort of the Divine life in the soul, while we are in the wilderness of this world. Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace are to be used. We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our days, the morning of our opportunities; which if we let slip, it may be too late to gather. The manna must not be hoarded up, but eaten; those who have received Christ, must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain. There was manna enough for all, enough for each, and none had too much; so in Christ there is enough, but not more than we need. But those who ate manna, hungered again, died at last, and with many of them God was not well pleased; whereas they that feed on Christ by faith, shall never hunger, and shall die no more, and with them God will be for ever well pleased. Let us seek earnestly for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to turn all our knowledge of the doctrine of Christ crucified, into the spiritual nourishment of our souls by faith and love.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

32-36. Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations—The mere fact of such a multitude being fed for forty years in the wilderness, where no food of any kind is to be obtained, will show the utter impossibility of their subsisting on a natural production of the kind and quantity as this tarfa-gum [see on [19]Ex 16:13]; and, as if for the purpose of removing all such groundless speculations, Aaron was commanded to put a sample of it in a pot—a golden pot (Heb 9:4)—to be laid before the Testimony, to be kept for future generations, that they might see the bread on which the Lord fed their fathers in the wilderness. But we have the bread of which that was merely typical (1Co 10:3; Joh 6:32).