Keluaran 16:22

16:22 And ¹  on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers ²  per person; ³  and all the leaders ⁴  of the community ⁵  came and told ⁶  Moses.

Keluaran 38:25

38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, ⁷  according to the sanctuary shekel,

[16:22]  ¹ tn Heb “and it happened/was.”

[16:22]  ² 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).

[16:22]  ³ tn Heb “for one.”

[16:22]  ⁴ tn The word suggests “the ones lifted up” above others, and therefore the rulers or the chiefs of the people.

[16:22]  ⁵ tn Or “congregation” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

[16:22]  ⁶ 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).

[38:25]  ⁷ sn This would be a total of 301,775 shekels (about 140,828 oz), being a half shekel exacted per person from 605,550 male Israelites 20 years old or more (Num 1:46). The amount is estimated to be around 3.75 tons.