Exodus 16:36

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

An omer is a tenth of an ephah.

Cross References

Exodus 16:16

This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer to a person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.’ ”

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.

Numbers 28:5

also one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour for a grain offering, mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil.

Ruth 2:17

So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.