Exodus 16:34
As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 16:34 in other translations
| BSB | And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
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| WEB | As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. |
| ASV | As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. |
| YLT | as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest before the Testimony, for a charge. |
| DARBY | As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so Aaron deposited it before the Testimony, to be kept. |
| BBE | So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. |
| Webster | As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. |
What does Exodus 16:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32-36
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 Ex 16:13]; and, as if for the purpose of removing all such groundless speculations, Aaron was commanded to…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 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…
Exodus 16:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 16:34
- Exodus 25:16
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
- Exodus 25:21
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
- Exodus 27:21
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, 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 unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 17:10
And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
- 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 upon the ark:
- Exodus 30:36
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
- Exodus 30:6
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
- Deuteronomy 10:5
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
- Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
- Exodus 38:21
This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 1:50
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
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- Exodus 16:33
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
- Exodus 16:34
As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Exodus 16:35
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 16:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Aarón lo puso delante del Testimonio para guardarlo, como Jehová lo mandó á Moisés. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comme l’ Éternel l’avait commandé à Moïse, Aaron la posa devant le témoignage pour être gardée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So wie Jehova Mose geboten hatte, legte Aaron es vor das Zeugnis nieder, zur Aufbewahrung. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | sicut præcepit Dominus Moysi. Posuitque illud Aaron in tabernaculo reservandum. |