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14 (A)Then the layer of dew [a]evaporated, and behold, on the [b]surface of the wilderness (B)there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground. 15 And the sons of Israel saw it and said to one another, “[c]What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “(C)It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat. 16 This is [d]what Yahweh has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man [e]as much as he should eat; you shall take an [f](D)omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:14 Lit had gone up
  2. Exodus 16:14 Lit face of
  3. Exodus 16:15 Heb Man hu, sounds similar to manna; cf. 16:31
  4. Exodus 16:16 Lit the thing which
  5. Exodus 16:16 Lit according to his eating
  6. Exodus 16:16 Lit an omer for a head; an omer was approx. 2.1 qt. or 2.3 l