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15 And the sons of Israel saw it and said to one another, “[a]What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “(A)It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat. 16 This is [b]what Yahweh has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man [c]as much as he should eat; you shall take an [d](B)omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’” 17 And the sons of Israel did so; some gathered much and some little.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:15 Heb Man hu, sounds similar to manna; cf. 16:31
  2. Exodus 16:16 Lit the thing which
  3. Exodus 16:16 Lit according to his eating
  4. Exodus 16:16 Lit an omer for a head; an omer was approx. 2.1 qt. or 2.3 l