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16 This is the word that Yahweh commanded, ‘Gather from it, each according to what he can eat,[a] an omer per person[b] according to the number of you.[c] You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.’”

17 And the Israelites[d] did so, and they gathered, some more and some less. 18 And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered each according to what he could eat.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:16 Literally “a man for the mouth of his eating”
  2. Exodus 16:16 Literally “skull” or “head”
  3. Exodus 16:16 Or “the number of your selves”
  4. Exodus 16:17 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Exodus 16:18 Literally “a man for the mouth of his eating”