New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 16:13-18

13So it came about at evening that 1the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning 2there was a layer of dew around the camp.

14 3When the layer of dew 4evaporated, behold, on the 5surface of the wilderness 6there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

15When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “7What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “8It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

16This is 9what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone gather 10as much as he will eat; you shall take 11 12an omer apiece according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”

17The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little.

18When they measured it by the 13omer, 14the one who had gathered much did not have too much, and the one who had gathered little did not have too little; everyone gathered 15as much as he would eat.

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Notes

1. Exodus 16:13 Num 11:31; Ps 78:27-29; 105:40 ↩
2. Exodus 16:13 Num 11:9 ↩
3. Exodus 16:14 Num 11:7-9 ↩
4. Exodus 16:14 Lit had gone up ↩
5. Exodus 16:14 Lit face of ↩
6. Exodus 16:14 Ex 16:31; Neh 9:15; Ps 78:24; 105:40 ↩
7. Exodus 16:15 Heb Man hu, cf. v 31 ↩
8. Exodus 16:15 Ex 16:4; Neh 9:15; Ps 78:24; John 6:31; 1 Cor 10:3 ↩
9. Exodus 16:16 Lit the thing which ↩
10. Exodus 16:16 Lit according to his eating ↩
11. Exodus 16:16 Lit an omer for a head; about 3 qt. or 2.8 liters ↩
12. Exodus 16:16 Ex 16:32, 36 ↩
13. Exodus 16:18 About 3 qt. or 2.8 liters ↩
14. Exodus 16:18 2 Cor 8:15 ↩
15. Exodus 16:18 Lit according to his eating ↩

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