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Exodus 16:15-17
Evangelical Heritage Version
Exodus 16:15-17
Evangelical Heritage Version
15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”[a] because they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given to you as food to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: All of them are to gather as much of it as they need to eat. You are to take an omer[b] per person based on the number of people each of you has in your tents.”
17 The Israelites did this, and some gathered more, some less.
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- Exodus 16:15 The Hebrew for What is it? sounds like the word for manna.
- Exodus 16:16 An omer is a container that holds approximately two quarts. Since the term here means both the container and the amount that it holds, and an omer is compared with an ephah, another ancient measurement, the translation retains the Hebrew term rather than converting it to a present-day measurement. See verse 36.
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