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17 The Israelites did so, and they gathered—some more, some less. 18 When[a] they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

19 Moses said to them, “No one[b] is to keep any of it[c] until morning.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:18 tn The preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive is subordinated here as a temporal clause.
  2. Exodus 16:19 tn The address now is for “man” (אִישׁ, ʾish), “each one”; here the instruction seems to be focused on the individual heads of the households.
  3. Exodus 16:19 tn Or “some of it,” “from it.”