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15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “[a]What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.(A) 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let every man gather as much of it as he needs. Take an [b]omer for each person, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’” 17 The Israelites did so, and some gathered much [of it] and some [only a] little.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:15 Heb man hu, cf v 31.
  2. Exodus 16:16 I.e. a little over two quarts.

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