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What does Exodus 16:17 mean?

"The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less."

— Exodus 16:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

14

When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

15

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.”

16

This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”

17

The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

18

When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

19

Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”

20

Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

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