17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little.


In Context

14 And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.

15 And the children of Israel saw it, and said one to another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.

16 This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Gather of it every man according to what he can eat, an omer a poll, according to the number of your persons: ye shall take every man for those that are in his tent.

17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some much, some little.

18 And they measured with the omer: then he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little wanted nothing: they had gathered every man according to the measure of his eating.

19 And Moses said to them, Let no man leave any of it until the morning.

Exodus 16:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:17The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17And the sons of Israel do so, and they gather, he who is gathering much, and he who is gathering little;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.