Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.
33. a pot ] or jar: inneth, only here: LXX. (an earthen jar).
lay it up ] As Num 17:4, in a similar connexion.
before Jehovah ] before the Ark, in the Tent of Meeting; cf. on v. 9.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A pot – The word here used occurs in no other passage. It corresponds in form and use to the Egyptian for a casket or vase in which oblations were presented.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
In the tabernacle, and by the ark, when they shall be built, and at present in the place where you meet for the solemn worship of God.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And Moses said unto Aaron, take a pot,…. The Targum of Jonathan calls it an earthen pot; and so Jarchi; which, if it could be supported, might be considered as an emblem of the ministers of the word, in whom, as in earthen vessels, the Gospel of Christ is put: Aben Ezra says, it was a vessel either of earth or brass, which latter is more likely for duration; since an earthen vessel can hardly be supposed to continue so long as this did, and much less a glass pot, as others take it to be: but the Septuagint version renders it a golden pot; and so it is said to be by Philo the Jew a, and which is confirmed by the apostle, Heb 9:4 and which puts the thing out of question; and this may denote the word and ordinances which retain and hold forth Christ as the bread of life, and are a memorial of him, as evidently set forth, crucified, and slain, to future ages, comparable to gold; both for the preciousness of them, being more to be desired than gold, yea, than fine gold, and for the duration of them, they being to continue until the second coming of Christ:
and put an omer full of manna therein; the manna, and the full measure of it, according to a man’s eating, was to be put into it, denoting that a full Christ, or Christ in all the fulness of his person and grace, is to be held forth in the word and ordinances to the eye of faith:
and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations; in a place where the Lord would hereafter fix the symbol of his presence, the ark, cherubim, and mercy seat; and may signify the presence of Christ with his Father, the efficacy of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, his mediation and intercession; for he is not only held forth in the word, for faith to look at, but he is before the throne as though he had been slain, Re 5:6.
a De Cong. Quaer. Erud. Gratia, p. 438.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(33) Lay it up before the Lord.Comp. Exo. 16:33, where Aaron is said to have laid it up before the Testimony, i.e., the Two Tables. According to the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Ark of the Covenant contained three things onlythe tables, the pot of manna, and Aarons rod that budded (Heb. 9:4). The deposit of the manna in so sacred a place may be accounted for by its typifying the true bread from heaven (Joh. 6:32).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 16:33-34. Take a pot, &c. It is probable that this command is mentioned here by way of anticipation, and that the pot of manna was not laid up before the testimony, till after the giving of the law. This pot, in which the manna was deposited, was of gold, (St. Paul tells us, Heb 9:4.) as were all the vessels of the sanctuary. There are disputes among the learned about the figure of this vessel. The Lexicons upon the Hebrew word say, that it signifies an urn or pot, with a wide belly, and strait pointed mouth. Reland is of opinion, that it had such a lid or cover as those pots into which they put wine; and like to those by which it is represented on some Samaritan medals, of which he gives a draft in his learned dissertation: he is of opinion, that the vessel had two handles. Before the Lord signifies the same as before the testimony; an expression which we shall have occasion to explain hereafter.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Here was a standing miracle of God’s power in the preservation of this food, which 24 hours could not keep pure in its own natural state. And was not this a type of the Church, amidst all her foes, and her own tendency to corruptions.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 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.
Ver. 33. Take a pot. ] A golden pot. Heb 9:4 Strabo a writeth, that the Metapontini, after a plentiful harvest which had much enriched them, dedicated to Apollo at Delphi , a harvest of gold.
a Geog.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a = one.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Heb 9:4
Reciprocal: Exo 16:15 – It is manna Exo 16:16 – omer Exo 16:24 – General Exo 16:36 – General 1Sa 17:54 – took the head 1Ki 8:9 – in the ark
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 16:33-34. Take a pot A golden pot, Heb 9:4. For all the vessels of the sanctuary were of gold. Lay it up before the Lord That is, in the tabernacle, and by the ark, when they should be built: Before the testimony The ark of the testimony, or witness, because in it were the tables of the covenant, or the law of God, which was a testimony of Gods authority and will, and of mans subjection and duty, or of the covenant made between God and man. The preservation of this pot of manna from waste and corruption, was a standing miracle; and, therefore, the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. The manna is called spiritual meat, (1Co 10:3,) because it was typical of spiritual blessings. Christ himself is the true manna, the bread of life, of which that was a figure, Joh 6:49-51. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Mat 4:4. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Rev 2:17. These comforts come from heaven, as the manna did, and are the support of the divine life in the soul, while we are in the wilderness of this world: it is food for Israelites, for those only that follow the pillar of cloud and fire: it is to be gathered; Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace must be used: we must every one of us gather for ourselves. There was manna enough for all, enough for each, and none had too much; so in Christ there is a complete sufficiency, and no superfluity. But they that did eat manna hungered again, died at last, and with many of them God was not well pleased: whereas they that feed on Christ by faith shall never hunger, and shall die no more, and with them God will be for ever well pleased. The Lord evermore give us this bread!
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a {o} pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
(o) Of this vessel read Heb 9:4.