16:27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.
16:28 So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse1 to obey my commandments and my instructions?
[16:28]1tn The verb is plural, and so it is addressed to the nation and not to Moses. The perfect tense in this sentence is the characteristic perfect, denoting action characteristic, or typical, of the past and the present.
