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16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘You are to gather from it what each person is to eat,[a] about one omer[b] per person according to the number of your people, and one person is to gather for everyone in his tent.’”

17 The Israelis did this, some gathering much, some little. 18 When they measured it with a vessel the capacity of which was one omer,[c] the one who gathered much did not have an excess, while the one who gathered little did not lack. They gathered exactly what each needed to eat.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:16 Lit. each according to his eating
  2. Exodus 16:16 I.e. about two quarts
  3. Exodus 16:18 I.e. a vessel with a dry capacity of about two quarts
  4. Exodus 16:18 Lit. each according to his eating