KJV King James Version
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
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Exodus 16:33
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
WEB World English Bible
Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Moses saith unto Aaron, ‘Take one pot, and put there the fulness of the omer of manna, and let it rest before Jehovah, for a charge for your generations;’
Surrounding context — Exodus 16
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it [was] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.
32 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.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayמֹשֶׁ֜הH4872 · mo.shehMosesאֶֽל־H413 · elto(wards)אַהֲרֹ֗ןH175 · a.ha.ronAaronקַ֚חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeצִנְצֶ֣נֶתH6803 · tsin.tse.netjarאַחַ֔תH259 · e.chadoneוְתֶן־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveשָׁ֥מָּהH8033 · shamthereמְלֹֽא־H4393 · me.lofullnessהָעֹ֖מֶרH6016 · o.mersheafמָ֑ןH4478 · manmannaוְהַנַּ֤חH5117 · nu.achto restאֹתוֹ֙H853 · et[Obj.]לִפְנֵ֣יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeיְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDלְמִשְׁמֶ֖רֶתH4931 · mish.me.retchargeלְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם׃H1755 · dorgeneration
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