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Scriptut't Account oj
accounts together, and in one point of view, will be
the best preparation for the discus~ing or judging of
any arguments on one side or the other.
In the second chapter of Ge1l£sir, the hi.storian ha.~
jng concluded his account of the six days' creation,
pl"oceeds thus: "And on the seventh day God end·
ed his work which he had made; and hE rested on
the seventh day from all his work which he had made ;
and God blessed the seventh day, and san.ct!fied it, because
that ir1 it he had rested from all his work whicb
God created and made." .I.\fterthis we hear no more
of the sabbath,or of the seventh day, as in any manner
distinguished frorn the ether six, until the history
·brings us down to the sojourning of the Jews in the
wilderness, when the following remarkable- passage
occurs.
Upon the complaint of the people for \\~3nt
of food, God was pleased to provide fOl' their relief
by a miraculous supply of manna, which was found
every morning upon the ground about the camp;
"and they gathered it every morning, every man according
to his eating; and when the ~un wCLxed hot,
it melted: and it came to pass, that on the sixth Jay
they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for
one man: and all the rulr-r3 of the congregation caIne
and told MOJeJ; and he said unto them, this is that
which the Lord hath said, to-morrow lS the reIt of the
iDly sabbath untD the I .. ord; bake that which ye 1}JIll
bake to.day, and seeihe that "Ie \\'in set:the~ and that
which remaineth over tay up for you, h) be kept
until the morning; and they ldid it up till the
morning, as Jt'oses bade, and it did not stink" (as
it had done before, when some of them lEft it till the
morning) " neither was there any worm therein.
And Moses said, Eat that to day; jflf" IrJ-day is a sabbath
II1lto the Lord: to-day ye ~hall not find it in the fiele4·
Six days ye shaH gather it, but on the seventh day.,
which is the sabb~th, in it there shall be none. Alld
it came to pass that thel'e went out ~ome of the people
on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
And the Lord said unto M ose!, how long refuse ye to
keep my commandments and ·my laws? See, for that