| 27. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the narrative marker vayehi {וַיְהִי֙ | wa-yə-hî} ‘and it happened’, linking this event to previous instructions. The temporal phrase bayyom hashevi'i {בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי | bə-yōm haš-šə-ḇî-ʿî} ‘on the seventh day’ foregrounds the Sabbath setting. The verb yatsau {יָצְאוּ | yāṣ-ʾû} ‘they went out’ with the prepositional phrase minhaam {מִן־הָעָם | min-hā-ʿām} specifies a subset of the community. The infinitive lilqot {לִלְקֹט | lil-qōṭ} ‘to gather’ expresses their purpose, and the clause velo matsau {וְלֹא מָצָאוּ | wə-lōʾ mā-ṣā-ʾû} ‘and they did not find’ highlights the Sabbath provision by the absence of manna. The formal uses a that-clause to preserve the temporal link, while the dynamic restructures for immediate readability. |