Exodus 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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֗ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
said	וַיֹּ֣אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
thing	הַדָּבָר֙ ha.da.Var	H1697	a word · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
commandeth	צִוָּ֣ה tzi.Vah	H6680	(intensively) to constitute · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Fill	מְלֹ֤א me.Lo'	H4393	fulness (literally or figuratively) · noun, common masculine singular construct
omer	הָעֹ֙מֶר֙ ha.'O.mer	H6016	properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
kept	לְמִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת le.mish.Me.ret	H4931	watch · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
generations	לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶ֑ם le.do.ro.tei.Khem	H1755	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
see	יִרְא֣וּ yir.'U	H7200	to see · verb, qal jussive, 3rd person masculine plural
bread	הַלֶּ֗חֶם ha.Le.chem	H3899	food (for man or beast) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
fed	הֶאֱכַ֤לְתִּי he.'e.Khal.ti	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person common singular
wilderness	בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר ba.mid.Bar	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
forth	בְּהוֹצִיאִ֥י be.ho.tzi.'I	H3318	to go (causatively · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct + pronominal suffix
land	מֵאֶ֥רֶץ me.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Egypt	מִצְרָֽיִם mitz.Ra.yim	H4714	Mitsrajim · proper noun, a place name

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Cross-references

Psalms 105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
Psalms 111:4-5 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance…
Psalms 103:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told, 1. How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot, as we are told (Heb 9:4), and kept before the testimony, or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Exo 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standing miracle, and therefore the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. "Posterity shall see the bread," says God, "wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness," see what sort of food it was, and how much each man's daily proportion of it was, that it may appear they were neither kept to hard fare nor…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations--The mere fact of such a multitude being fed for forty years in the wilderness, where no food of any kind is to be obtained, will show the utter impossibility of their subsisting on a natural production of the kind and quantity as this tarfa-gum [see on Exo 16:13]; and, as if for the purpose of removing all such groundless speculations, Aaron was commanded to put a sample of it in a pot--a golden pot (Heb 9:4) --to be laid before the Testimony, to be kept for future generations, that they might see the bread on which the Lord fed their fathers in the wilderness. But we have the bread of which that was merely typical (Co1 10:3; Joh 6:32).…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:32

To be kept for your generations - See Clarke's note on Exo 16:9.

John Gill on Exodus 16:32

And Moses said,.... At another time, though it is here inserted to give the account of the mamma all together: this is the thing which the Lord commandeth; namely, what follows: fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; which was the quantity allowed a man every day; this measure was to be laid up, and reserved for posterity in future generations, not to eat, nor so much as taste of, for then it would soon have been gone, but to look at, as follows: that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt; that they might see what sort of food was provided for them, and what quantity each man had of it every day; and so…

Dictionary and topics

Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Manna — Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived…
Omer — A handful, one-tenth of an ephah=half a gallon dry measure (Ex. 16:22, 32, 33, 36)=“tenth deal.”
Weights And Measures — A. WEIGHTS.—The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubtful points. All ancient Greek systems of weight were derived, either…
Instruction · .The pot of manna — .The pot of manna
Manna · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Memorial · The pot of manna — The pot of manna

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 16:32

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:32

John Gill on Exodus 16:32

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 16:32

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:32

John Gill on Exodus 16:32

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 16:31–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 16:32-35

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 16:32-36

Rashi on Exodus 16:32