Exodus 16:36
in Exodus 16(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
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ASV
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
KJV
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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This verse in Exodus 16
Commentary
5 notes on this verseNow 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.
This site's exposition
The Israelites ate manna forty years
on Exodus 16:35-36
The supply runs the whole wilderness period. Joshua 5:12 records the morning it stopped, the day after they ate the produce of the land at Gilgal. Bread fell from heaven for exactly as long as there was no other bread.
This site's exposition
an omer is a tenth of an ephah
Adam Clarke puts the omer at about six English pints, and he thinks the verse belongs after verse 18, where the gathering was measured. Ruth 2:17 gives about an ephah as one day's gleaning.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Anyway, when the instruction is given to consecrate in a golden vessel the memorial of the food sent down by God from heaven, "the gomor," it is written, "is a tenth part of three measures." For our purposes, "three measures" means three sources of judgment: perception of sensible objects; reason, for evaluating sentences, nouns and verbs; and the intellect, for intelligible objects.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהָעֹ֕מֶר | vehaomer | and the omer | H6016 → | 14 times |
| עֲשִׂרִ֥ית | ʾasirit | [is] [the] tenth [part] of | H6224 → | |
| הָאֵיפָ֖ה | haeifah | the ephah | H374 → | |
| הֽוּא׃ פ | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְהָעֹ֕מֶרand the omer
vehaomerH6016 →14 times
עֲשִׂרִ֥ית[is] [the] tenth [part] of
ʾasiritH6224 →
הָאֵיפָ֖הthe ephah
haeifahH374 →
הֽוּא׃ פit
hu'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
2 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 16:16This 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.’”
it leads to
- Exodus 16:18
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
- Exodus 16:32–33
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I…
- Exodus 16:18
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata Book 2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).