Exodus 16:36

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

In Context

35And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:16This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.'

Ruth 2:17So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

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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