Exodus chapter 16 part 1

After reading chapter 16:

*Over one million people ( I can't emphasize this enough.) left Elim and travelled to the desert of Sin. Sin is probably a short version of Sinai. According to the map in my study bible, it was a journey of about 50 miles. It was the fifteenth day of the second month, exactly one month from leaving Egypt. Since the Jews follow a lunar calendar, the fifteenth of any month would have been around the time of a full moon.

*The people complained to Moses and Aaron that they were hungry. In Egypt they " sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted."  When they left Egypt, they took their herds of animals with them.(chapter 12:38) Had they eaten them all in one month? Then, Yahweh told Moses he would rain down bread from heaven.  Every day they were to gather enough for that day. On the sixth day, they were to gather twice as much. This was a test to see if the people would obey. Moses and Aaron told the people that it wasn't them the people were grumbling about, but Yahweh, who had brought them out of Egypt. They would see who was really responsible for their welfare when they got their bread and meat from God.

*Moses told Aaron to speak to the people. While he was speaking, the glory of the lord appeared in the cloud that was leading them around. What is the glory of the lord? It doesn't say, and we have not encountered this phenomenon before. Your guess is as good as mine. If I was to choose a cinematic representation, I would make it rapid flashes of lightening, or a mysterious green glow.

*God told Moses to tell the Israelites they would eat meat at twilight and bread in the morning. That evening, quail came and covered the camp, presumably enough quail to feed over a million people. In the morning, after the dew had dried, there were thin flakes of some substance in the ground. The Israelites didn't know what it was. Moses told them it was the bread Yahweh had given them to eat. He told them to gather enough for each person. When they were done, all the people mysteriously had the same amount, no matter how much or little they had gathered.

*I wonder how the Israelites camped. They had not been nomads with tents. While in Egypt,  they lived in houses. What did they use for shelter out in the desert? Where did they get it from, and how did they transport it and all their other possession? Remember, they plundered Egypt before they left.

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