The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 16:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

When they did mete it with an omer. On returning to their tents, with the manna which they had collected, the Israelites proceeded to measure it with their own, or a neighbour's, omer measure, when the wonderful result appeared, that, whatever the quantity actually gathered by any one, the result of the measurement showed, exactly as many omers as there were persons in the family.

Thus, he that had gathered much found that he had nothing over, and he that had gathered little found that he had no lack.

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