Exodus 16

Exodus 16:34

Before the Testimony] This command for Aaron to lay up the Pot of Manna before the Lord, 1634 was performed by him, in laying it not before the Testimony, not at this time of the Command here; but after the Ark, and two Tables of the Covenant were made, Exod. XXXIII. 29. and Ch. XXXVII, 1, &c.

Exodus 16:36

An Omer] The Omer and Ephah here seeme quite altered in that Visionary New State of Israel, Ezek. XLV. 11. Unlesse Gnomer and Chomer be two several measures; which I rather incline unto; and conceive the truth to be this; That 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Exod. XVI. 36. is the tenth part of an Ephah, as is there set down; whereunto accords that ver. 16. it being the measure of the eating of Manna sufficient for a man by the day. But 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Ezek. XLV. containes ten Ephahs or Baths, both being of the same measure, v. 11. and 14.

And hereunto accords that, Esay V. 10. where one 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (for so the word is there written, as it is in Ezek. XLV.) yeelds but one Ephah. i. e. the tenth part of the seed, it being a judgement of famine there denounced. See also, Levit. XXVII. 16. And this may serve for the better explication of my Annotations upon that place of Ezekiel, contained in the second Edition of the great Annotations printed 1651.