8484. Verses 21-24 And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to the mouth of his eating; and the sun grew hot, and it melted. And so it was, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses. And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken: [A day of] rest, a holy sabbath to Jehovah shall tomorrow be. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to keep until the morning. And they put it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not become putrid, and there was no worm in it.

'And they gathered it morning by morning' means the reception of good from the Lord unceasingly. 'Each according to the mouth of his eating' means each according to his capacity to make it his own. 'And the sun grew hot, and it melted' means its disappearance gradually as craving increased. 'And so it was, that on the sixth day' means at the end of each state. 'They gathered twice as much' means the joining together resulting from the reception of good. 'Two omers for each one' means the power present then. 'And all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses' means reflection on the basis of primary truths. 'And he said to them' means instruction. 'This is what Jehovah has spoken' means influx from the Divine. '[A day of] rest' means a state of peace when there is no temptation. 'A holy sabbath to Jehovah shall tomorrow be' means the joining together of goodness and truth into eternity. 'Bake what you will bake' means preparing good to be joined. 'And boil what you will boil' means preparing truth to be joined. 'And all that is left over put aside for yourselves to keep until the morning' means the enjoyment of all good and truth then as if from what was their own. 'And they put it aside till the morning' means the enjoyment to come. 'As Moses commanded' means in accordance with instruction received from God's truth. 'And it did not become putrid, and there was no worm in it' means that there was nothing foul within it, because in that way they acted from the Divine in making it their own.