That they should preserve a pot of it for a memorial , ver 32. A month's provision, it seems, the host of Israel took with them out of Egypt, when they came thence on the 15th day of the first month, which, by the 15th day of the second month, was all spent. Then the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron - God 's viceregents among them. They so undervalue their deliverance, that they wish, they had died in Egypt, nay, and died by the hand of the Lord too. Tis common for people to say of that pain , or sickness, which they see not second causes of, It is what pleaseth God , as if that were not so likewise which comes by the hand of man, or some visible accident.
None talk more absurdly than murmurers.
Man being made out of the earth , his Maker has wisely ordered him food out of the earth , Psalm civ, 14. But the people of Israel typifying the church of the first- born that are written in heaven , receiving their charters, laws and commissions from heaven , from heaven also they received their food . See what God designed in making this provision for them, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no - Whether they will trust me, and whether they would serve him, and be ever faithful to so good a master. They shall prepare - Lay up, grind , bake or boil. So tame that they might take up as many of them as they pleased.