Exodus 16:17
15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
16 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.’”
So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
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.
19 Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
- KJV
- And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
- WEB
- The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
- ASV
- And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
- DARBY
- And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little.
- BLB
- And the sons of Israel did so. And they gathered—the one much, and the one little.
- ÅB
- Og Israels barn gjorde slik, og de sanket, den ene meget, den andre lite.
- OTB
- Israelittene gjorde som de ble instruert; noen samlet mye, noen lite.
- B1930
- Og Israels barn gjorde således, og de sanket, den ene meget, den andre lite.