36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-36)God having provided manna to be his people’s food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told, 1. How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot , as we are told (Heb. 9:4), and kept before the testimony , or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Exod. 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standi…
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