32 Then Moses said, “This is [a]what the Lord has commanded: ‘A [b]full omer of it is to be kept safe throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33 And Moses said to Aaron, “(A)Take a jar and put a [c]full omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept safe throughout your generations.” 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before (B)the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And (C)the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36 (Now (D)an [d]omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:32 Lit the thing which
  2. Exodus 16:32 About 3 qt. or 2.8 liters
  3. Exodus 16:33 About 3 qt. or 2.8 liters
  4. Exodus 16:36 About 3 qt. or 2.8 liters

32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”

33 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna(A) in it. Then place it before the Lord to be kept for the generations to come.”

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law,(B) so that it might be preserved. 35 The Israelites ate manna(C) forty years,(D) until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.(E)

36 (An omer(F) is one-tenth of an ephah.)(G)

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