Exodus 16 · Verse 30

Exodus 16:30

So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:30, King James Version

Exodus 16:30 in other translations

BSBSo the people rested on the seventh day.
WEBSo the people rested on the seventh day.
ASVSo the people rested on the seventh day.
YLTAnd the people rest on the seventh day,
DARBYAnd the people rested on the seventh day.
BBESo the people took their rest on the seventh day.
WebsterSo the people rested on the seventh day.

What does Exodus 16:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:13-31

13-31. at even the quails came up, and covered the camp--This bird is of the gallinaceous kind [that is, relating to the order of heavy-bodied, largely terrestrial birds], resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtledove. They are found in certain seasons in the places through which the Israelites passed, being migratory birds, and they were probably brought to the camp by "a wind from the Lord" as…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 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…

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Exodus 16:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁבְּת֥וּvai.yish.be.Tuand they restedH7673
הָעָ֖םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
בַּיּ֥וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117
הַשְּׁבִעִֽי\׃ha.she.vi.'I<the> seventhH7637

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 16:30

  • Deuteronomy 5:12-14

    Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

  • Hebrews 4:9

    There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

  • Leviticus 23:3

    Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

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Le 23:3; De 5:12-14; Heb 4:9

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Context

  • Exodus 16:29

    See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

  • Exodus 16:30

    So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exodus 16:31

    And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

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Exodus 16:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Así el pueblo reposó el séptimo día.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le peuple se reposa le septième jour.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und das Volk ruhte am siebten Tage.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et sabbatizavit populus die septimo.