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.

And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.

And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.

And Moses said: "Eat it today, because it is the Sabbath of the Lord. Today it will not be found in the field.

Dixitque Moses, Comedite illud hodie: quia Sabbathum est bodie Jehovae. Hodie non invenietis illud in agro.

Eat that today - The practical observance of the Sabbath was thus formally instituted before the giving of the law. The people were to abstain from the ordinary work of every day life: they were not to collect food, nor, as it would seem, even to prepare it as on other days.

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not (l) find it in the field.
(l) God took away the opportunity for their labour, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept.

And Moses said, eat that today,.... That is, he said this on the seventh day in the morning, and bid them eat of it whether baked or seethed, or as it was, or just as they pleased; however, they had liberty to eat of it, and indeed they had no other, because none fell on this day:
for today is a sabbath unto the Lord; a time of rest from labour, and to be employed in the service of the Lord:
today ye shall not find it in the field: should they seek for it, which they had no occasion to do, since there was a sufficiency provided the day before; and this he said to prevent their going out to seek for it, which, if out of curiosity or for any other reason any of them should do, it would be in vain and fruitless.