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Exodus chapter 16 verses 19 and 20

and Moses said to them

let no one leave any of it over till the morning, but they did not listen

to Moses, some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank, and Moses was angry with them.

So get the scene here.

God has heard his people's cry for food in their travels.

You can't find food anywhere,

so they cry out to God, God answers with manna,

bread from heaven,

such that every day when they wake up God has provided food outside.

And he says, I'm going to provide for you every day.

So don't hold food over till the next day. Now the only exception to that is on the

Sabbath when he says I'll provide for you for a couple of days but every other day

you trust in me that at the end of the day when you don't have any food left,

the next morning when you wake up,

I'm going to provide for you.

And that's what he did.

The problem is the people, at least some of them,

didn't trust God in that way. They're thinking,

ah, we don't know if it's going to be here tomorrow. So let's

keep some over for the next day. And so they did. What they found is that

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