1)

Why did Hashem include Moshe among the rebels?

1.

Rashi #1: In keeping with the mantra 'The cabbage is smitten together with the weeds'. Sometimes the innocent are smitten together with the guilty. 1

2.

Rashi #2 (in Pasuk 22): Because he was partly to blame, for failing to pass on the prohibition to collect the Manna on Shabbos.

3.

Seforno: Because he was partly to blame, inasmuch as he only told them to collect on six days and not seven, without explaining to them why. 2


1

Refer to 16:22:2:1. See Sifsei Chachamim. See also Torah Temimah, citing Sanhedrin, 11a And note 42.

2

Which explains why they did not believe him when he informed them that the Manna would not fall on Shabbos. They would have taken him more seriously had he taught them the reason behind the prohibition - that collecting it (picking from where it was connected to the ground) and carrying from one domain to the other, are intrinsically forbidden on Shabbos.

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