Exodus 16:36 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 16:36

an omer is the tenth part of an ephah . This is not to be confused with Ezekiel 45:11 , "an ephah is the tenth part of an homer". They are two different words : in Exodus 16:36 it is ` omen, in Ezekiel 45:11 it is homer. See note on Leviticus 27:16 , and App-51 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 16:31-36

"And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste thereof was like wafers made with honey. And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omer-ful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer-ful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 16:36

Exodus 16:36. Now an omer, &c.— See note on Exodus 16:16. Reflections on the manna in the wilderness, considered as a type of Christ. We have seen how the horrors of the wilderness were considerably abated by the miraculous cloud. But soon their provision, which they brought from Egypt, is exhausted; and unless some new miracle be wrought for them, they have nothing before their eyes but the melancholy prospect of perishing with hunger. The faithless multitude, forgetting their late... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 16:31-36

Evangelical commentators generally have felt that the manna was a substance unique from any other edible food (Exodus 16:31). Some interpreters believe it was the sap-like secretion of the tamarisk tree or the secretion of certain insects common in the desert. [Note: E.g., F. S. Bodenheimer, "The Manna of Sinai," Biblical Archaeologist 10:1 (February 1947):2-6.] In the latter case the miracle would have been the timing with which God provided it and the abundance of it. Normally this sap only... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 16:1-36

Third Murmuring. Sending of the Manna1. Pursuing their march southward, the Israelites come at the end of the first month after their departure from Egypt to the wilderness of Sin, forming the SW. border of the peninsula: see on Exodus 15:22. All the stations in the march are not mentioned. In Numbers 33:10 allusion is made to an ’encampment by the Red Sea’ between Elim and the wilderness of Sin. It must be remembered also that, owing to the vast extent of the host, there must have been a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 16:36

(36) Now an omer.—The “omer” and the “ephah” were both of them Egyptian measures. One—the latter—continued in use among the Hebrews, at any rate, until the captivity (Ezekiel 45, 46); the other—the omer—fell out of use very early. Hence this parenthetic verse, which is exegetical of the word “omer,” and may have been added by the completer of Deuteronomy, or by some later editor—perhaps Ezra. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 16:1-36

Exodus 16:2 It is 'worthy of remark,' Milton indignantly observes in his Second Defence, 'that those who are the most unworthy of liberty are wont to behave most ungratefully towards their deliverers'. Compare the further application of this passage by Milton in his tract on 'The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation'. Towards the close of his remonstrance, he writes... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:15-36

SPIRITUAL MEAT.Exodus 16:15-36.Since the journey of Israel is throughout full of sacred meaning, no one can fail to discern a mystery in the silent ceaseless daily miracle of bread-giving. But we are not left to our conjectures. St. Paul calls manna "spiritual meat," not because it nourished the higher life (for the eaters of it murmured for flesh, and were not estranged from their lust), but because it answered to realities of the spiritual world (1 Corinthians 10:3). And Christ Himself said,... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Exodus 16:36

16:36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an {q} ephah.(q) Which measure contained about five gallons. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 16:1-36

BREAD FROM HEAVEN FOR THE WILDERNESS (vs.1-36) Just one month following the Passover in Egypt, Israel, leaving the refreshment of Elim's oasis, came into "the wilderness of sin" (v.1). Sin means "thorn," and a thorn is an aborted attempt to bear fruit, which issues rather in that which is harmful and painful. In our Christian history too we find that the world through which we pass is a wilderness full of thorns, or in other words, "the sin which so easily ensnares us" (Hebrews 12:1). ... read more