Units
Homer
The homer is the daily manna ration in Exodus 16: each person collects a homer per head. On the sixth day they collect two homer. Moses has Aaron fill a jar with a homer of manna and store it before the Testimony. Verse 36 defines its value: a homer is one-tenth of an ephah.
Category
Units
Value
One-tenth of an ephah
First mention
Exodus 16:16
Scripture references
- Exodus 16:16
These are Yahweh's orders: Each of you must collect as much as he needs to eat -- a homer per head for each person in his tent.
- Exodus 16:18
When they measured out what they had collected by the homer, no one who had collected more had too much, no one who had collected less had too little. Each had collected as much as he needed to eat.
- Exodus 16:22
Now, on the sixth day they collected twice the amount of food: two homer per person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses this.
- Exodus 16:32
Moses then said, 'These are Yahweh's orders: Fill a homer with it and preserve it for your descendants, so that they can see the bread on which I fed you in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.'
- Exodus 16:33
Moses then said to Aaron, 'Take a jar and in it put a full homer of manna and store it in Yahweh's presence, to be kept for your descendants.'
- Exodus 16:36
A homer is one-tenth of an ephah.