This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, [according to] the number of your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents.
Ver. 16. Every man according to his eating.] Thus they were inured in diem vivere, as Quintilian saith the birds do, to depend upon God for their daily bread.