^8 (A)“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

⁵⁴ It was the day of ^(A)Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.^[a]

⁵⁶ Then they returned and ^(A)prepared spices and ointments.

On the Sabbath they rested ^(B)according to the commandment.

²² On ^(A)the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

²⁵ Moses said, “Eat it today, for ^(A)today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. ²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”

²⁹ See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

¹⁹ As soon as it ^(A)began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.