“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.
We have here, 1. A plain intimation of the observing of a seventh day sabbath, not only before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and therefore, from the beginning, Gen 2:3.
Commenting on Exodus 16:22-31
Six days ye shall gather it,.... Day after day, every morning, as they had done the six days past, so they should during their stay in the wilderness: but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath; which is repeated, being a new thing, to impress it on their minds: in it there shall be none: no manna; none shall fall, and so none can...
And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. (l) God took away the opportunity for their labour, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept.