Editing Manna (section)

===Sabbath===
[[File:Gathering of the Manna - Hours of Catherine of Cleves - MS M. 917-945 137v - Morgan Library New York, around 1440 (cropped).jpg|thumb|The Gathering of the Manna, a cropped image from [[Hours of Catherine of Cleves]]. Manuscript MS M. 917-945 ff 137v, [[Morgan Library & Museum]] New York, around 1440.]]
According to Exodus, [[Shabbat]] (Sabbath) was reinstituted the first week manna appeared.<ref name="autogenerated14">{{bibleverse||Exodus|16:23|HE}}.</ref> It states that twice as much manna as usual was available on the sixth morning of the week, and none at all could be found on the seventh day;<ref>{{bibleverse||Exodus|16:5|HE}}, {{bibleverse-nb||Exodus|16:22|HE}}, {{bibleverse-nb||Exodus|16:26-27|HE}}.</ref> although manna usually rotted and became maggot-infested after a single night,<ref name=autogenerated1/> that which had been collected on the sixth day remained fresh until the second night.<ref name="autogenerated7">{{bibleverse||Exodus|16:24|HE}}.</ref> Moses stated that the double portion of Preparation Day was to be consumed on Shabbat;<ref name=autogenerated14/> and that [[God]] instructed him that no one should leave his place on Shabbat,<ref>{{bibleverse||Exodus|16:27-29|HE}}.</ref> so that the people could rest during it.<ref>{{bibleverse||Exodus|16:30|HE}}.</ref>

[[Form critic]]s regard this part of the manna narrative to be spliced together from the Yahwist and Priestly traditions, with the Yahwist tradition emphasizing rest during Shabbat, while the Priestly tradition merely states that Shabbat exists, implying that the meaning of "Shabbat" was already known.<ref name="Nelson-1962"/><ref name="Hirsch-1906">{{cite web |date=1906 |last1=Hirsch |first1=E. G. |last2=Jacob |first2=B. |last3=Driver |first3=S. R. |title=Exodus, Book of |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5940-exodus-book-of |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com}}</ref> These critics regard this part of the manna narrative as an [[etiology|etiological]] supernature story designed to explain the origin of Shabbat observance, which in reality was probably pre-[[Moses|Mosaic]].<ref name="Nelson-1962"/>