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15 When the Israelis saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?”,[a] because they did not know what it was.

Moses told them, “It’s the food that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘You are to gather from it what each person is to eat,[b] about one omer[c] per person according to the number of your people, and one person is to gather for everyone in his tent.’”

17 The Israelis did this, some gathering much, some little.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:15 Heb. man hu; cf. vs. 31
  2. Exodus 16:16 Lit. each according to his eating
  3. Exodus 16:16 I.e. about two quarts