Exodus 16:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

World English Bible · Public Domain

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תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ

lâqaṭ

H3950

“to gather · him”

Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 37× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 31:46

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1125

to pick up, gather, glean, gather up - (Qal) - to pick up, gather - to glean - (Piel) - to gather, gather up - to collect (money) - to glean - (Pual) to be picked up - (Hithpael) to collect oneself

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ to gather H3950 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
3 nouns
2 adjectives
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ Qal · Imperfect
יִֽהְיֶה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

יָמִ֖ים day H3117 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 16:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 20:9–11 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
Ezekiel 46:1 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Luke 13:14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 16:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

שֵׁ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ וּבַיּ֧וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֛י שַׁבָּ֖ת לֹ֥א יִֽהְיֶה בּֽוֹ

Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 16:26 Septuagint · lemma form

ἕξ ἡμέρα συνλέγω ὁ δέ ἡμέρα ὁ ἕβδομος σάββατον ὅτι οὐ εἰμί ἐν αὐτός

Six days you⌃ shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

שִׁתָּא יוֹמִין תִּלְקְטֻנֵהּ וּבְיוֹמָא שְׁבִיעָאָה שַׁבְּתָא לָא יְהֵי בֵהּ:

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

שִׁתָּא יוֹמִין תִּלְקְטוּנֵיהּ וּבְיוֹמָא שְׁבִיעָאָה דְהוּא שַׁבְּתָא לָא יְהֵי בֵיהּ מַנָּא נָחִית

Six days you shall gather, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, no manna will come down.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 16:26 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

Ver. 26. {See Trapp on "Exo 16:30"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And it came to pass,.... Perhaps the next seventh day following:

that there went out some of the people for to gather; to gather manna, as on other days; which they did not through want of provision or a greedy appetite, for they had bread every day, and on that day to the full, but to gratify their curiosity, or to see whether the words of Moses stood, as Aben Ezra expresses it, that is, whether what he said was true, or came to pass, that there should be none, and they should not be able to find any on that day, and so it was:

and they found none; no manna; in the places where they used to find it in plenty on other days.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

but the seventh day

"but on day seven" (See: Numbers)

manna

This was the name the Israelites gave to the bread that Yahweh caused to appear for them each morning.

they found none

"they did not find any manna"

translationWords

Sabbath

manna

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

וביום השביעי שבת means but on the seventh day is a day of rest (supply the word הוא); and לא יהיה בו means the Manna shall not be on it; and this verse comes (is written) only to include the Day of Atonement and the Festivals [as being also days when no Manna would fall] (Mekhilta).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lâqaṭ (“to gather”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to gather” (lâqaṭ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Genesis 31:46, which shares the word «to gather», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “day” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«תִּלְקְטֻ֑הוּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
“day” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.