Exodus 16:36

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

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In The King James Version

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

In Context

35And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:16This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

Ruth 2:17So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:33-36

A Pot of Manna Preserved. ( b. c. 1491.) 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord , to be kept for your generations. 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And… Read the whole commentary →

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