KJV King James Version
Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
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Exodus 16:36
Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
WEB World English Bible
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
ASV American Standard Version
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.
Surrounding context — 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.
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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Exodus 16:16This [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.Exodus 16:32-33And 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.
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