Exodus 16:21-22

16:21 So they gathered it each morning, ¹  each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt. ²  16:22 And ³  on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers ⁴  per person; ⁵  and all the leaders ⁶  of the community ⁷  came and told ⁸  Moses.

Exodus 32:26

32:26 So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come ⁹  to me.” ¹⁰  All the Levites gathered around him,

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¹ tn Heb “morning by morning.” This is an example of the repetition of words to express the distributive sense; here the meaning is “every morning” (see GKC 388 §121.c).

² tn The perfect tenses here with vav (ו) consecutives have the frequentative sense; they function in a protasis-apodosis relationship (GKC 494 §159.g).

³ tn Heb “and it happened/was.”

⁴ tn This construction is an exception to the normal rule for the numbers 2 through 10 taking the object numbered in the plural. Here it is “two of the omer” or “the double of the omer” (see GKC 433 §134.e).

⁵ tn Heb “for one.”

⁶ tn The word suggests “the ones lifted up” above others, and therefore the rulers or the chiefs of the people.

⁷ tn Or “congregation” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

⁸ sn The meaning here is probably that these leaders, the natural heads of the families in the clans, saw that people were gathering twice as much and they reported this to Moses, perhaps afraid it would stink again (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 197).

⁹ tn “come” is not in the text, but has been supplied.

¹⁰ tn S. R. Driver suggests that the command was tersely put: “Who is for Yahweh? To me!” (Exodus, 354).