Exodus 16:16
Good News Translation
The LORD has commanded that each of you is to gather as much of it as he needs, two quarts for each member of his household."

New Revised Standard Version
This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer to a person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.’”

Contemporary English Version
And he orders you to gather about two liters for each person in your family--that should be more than enough."

New American Bible
“Now, this is what the LORD has commanded. Gather as much of it as each needs to eat, an omer for each person for as many of you as there are, each of you providing for those in your own tent.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

omer

Exodus 16:18,33,36 And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat. . . .

for every man.

Hebrews souls

Context
Manna and Quail from Heaven
15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. 16This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.17And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:17
And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

Exodus 16:32
And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:36
Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

Exodus 16:15
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