Exodus 16:36

Now the omer was the tenth part of three measures.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

In Context

35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:16This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, an omer for each person, according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow lodgers.

Ruth 2:17So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that 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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