These chapters consist of two famous stories: one about a crossing of the Red Sea and another about manna falling from the skies.

An interesting thing about crossing is that “Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind”. First of all, it wouldn’t have worked. You’d get a tsunami if you pull out something like that. Or we have to presume that the wind originated in the middle of the sea, so here is a wind, and five meters to the right there is no wind. And even then it wouldn’t have worked because Israelites would’ve been blown away. So let’s ignore “east wind” part altogether lest we fall into sniggering about the Bible, which wouldn’t be good.

Exodus 16:28 is a remarkable (MS Word synonym for “interesting” which I don’t want to use twice) quote; God here says: “How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”, referring to Sabbath day. He says it to Moses, but Moses himself surely was extremely holy. Does it mean that Moses is responsible for Israelites’ behavior?

Another passage is Exodus 16:36 (last in Exodus 16). There is proper biblical talk before it for 35 chapters, and Exodus 16:35 seems a perfectly good finish for Exodus 16 (“…they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.”). It has all necessary epilogic, whatever it’s spelled like, qualities. But there comes Exodus 16:36, which is: “Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.” What is that? What does it have to do with anything?



Кстати, рекомендую -- Salmon of Doubt, посмертная книга Дугласа Адамса, собранная его издателем. "Our problem is that we produce technology instead of something useful. How do you know if you are holding technology in your hands? Check if it comes with a manual."