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Exodus 16:36

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.

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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BSB
(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
KJV
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
WEB
Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.
ASV
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
DARBY
Now an omer is the tenth [part] of an ephah.
BLB
And an omer is a tenth of an ephah.
ÅB
En omer er tiendedelen av en efa.
[^1]: se 2MO 12, 6.
[^2]: hebr. man, d.e. hva er det?.
[^3]: lovens tavler.
OTB
(En omer er omtrent en tidel av en efa.)
B1930
En omer er tiendedelen av en efa.

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  • Exodus 16:16

    This 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.

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  • Exodus 16:32–33

    And 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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