Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Exodus 16:32-36 comments: Manna provided for 40 years

16:32 ¶  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. 33  And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 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. 36  Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

This passage gives the measurement omer a definition as one tenth of an ephah. Strong’s dictionary gave a measurement, if you convert it to U.S. gallons, of between 5.5 and 11 gallons for an ephah. That would make an omer a tenth of that. A quantity of this Manna Moses kept for a testimony of this provision by the Lord. Here it says that the children of Israel ate this Manna for the entire forty years of their wilderness wanderings.


Joshua 5:10 ¶  And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. 11  And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. 12  And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

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