Omer

How Nave’s arranged it

• (One-tenth of an ephah)
• A dry measure containing, according to the Rabbis, two quarts, but according to Josephus, three and one-half quartsExodus 16:16–18Exodus 16:36

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 16:16–18

   This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:16–182 voices

   “An omer for every man - I shall here once for all give a short account of the measures of capacity among the Hebrews. Omer, עמר from the root amar, to press, squeeze, collect, and bind together; hence a sheaf of corn - a multitude of stalks pressed together.

   “Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.

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2. Exodus 16:36

   (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:361 voice

   “Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah - About six pints, English. See Clarke’s note on Exo 16:16. The true place of this verse seems to be immediately after Exo 16:18, for here it has no connection. 1. On the miracle of the manna, which is the chief subject in this chapter, a good deal has already been said in the preceding notes.

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