not find it] They did not find it because it fell not on the Sabbath day, for God would not have them to have occasion to goe out to labour for it on the Sabbath: that they might be the more free to sanctifie the whole day, by such religious duties, as he required of them. let no man come out of his place] This was not an absolute prohibition of all locall motion on the Sabbath day, (though some Jews in after Ages took it so; and therefore in what place and state soever the Sabbath tooke them, would not (upon any occasion) move or change, or divert from it till the day was done) for they might goe out of their Tents, to the place of publique worship (whether Tabernacle, Temple, or Synagogue) on the Sabbath day: for it was to be sanctified with a solemne Assemblie, Leviticus 23:3. and the people were to come out of their private Tents, to make up that Assembly at the Tabernacle (which stood without the Campe, Exodus 33:7.) this might be the Sabbath dayes journey, Acts 1:12. the prohibition then is concerning servile workes, and such motions as gave impediment to the due observation of the religious rest on the Sabbath; and in particular it forbad going out on the Sabbath to gather Manna.