34 As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony(A) to be preserved.

35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.(B) 36 (They used a measure called an omer, which held two quarts.[a])

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Footnotes

  1. 16:36 Lit (The omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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

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

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