Exodus 23:26

23:26 No woman will miscarry her young ¹  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ²  the number of your days.

Exodus 16:16

16:16 “This is what ³  the Lord has commanded: ⁴  ‘Each person is to gather ⁵  from it what he can eat, an omer ⁶  per person ⁷  according to the number ⁸  of your people; ⁹  each one will pick it up ¹⁰  for whoever lives ¹¹  in his tent.’”

[23:26]  ¹ tn Or “abort”; Heb “cast.”

[23:26]  ² sn No one will die prematurely; this applies to the individual or the nation. The plan of God to bless was extensive, if only the people would obey.

[16:16]  ³ tn Heb “the thing that.”

[16:16]  ⁴ tn The perfect tense could be taken as a definite past with Moses now reporting it. In this case a very recent past. But in declaring the word from Yahweh it could be instantaneous, and receive a present tense translation – “here and now he commands you.”

[16:16]  ⁵ tn The form is the plural imperative: “Gather [you] each man according to his eating.”

[16:16]  ⁶ sn The omer is an amount mentioned only in this chapter, and its size is unknown, except by comparison with the ephah (v. 36). A number of recent English versions approximate the omer as “two quarts” (cf. NCV, CEV, NLT); TEV “two litres.”

[16:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “for a head.”

[16:16]  ⁸ tn The word “number” is an accusative that defines more precisely how much was to be gathered (see GKC 374 §118.h).

[16:16]  ⁹ tn Traditionally “souls.”

[16:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will take.”

[16:16]  ¹¹ tn “lives” has been supplied.