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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 16:16/אבן עזרא על שמות ט״ז:ט״ז

אזה בדרך הסברא כי עומר לגלגלת למי שהוא גדול בשנים, ולקטנים כפי אכלם.

1[GATHER YE OF IT EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS EATING.] This was to be done by logical estimate.⁹³ implies that one is to estimate how much the person for whom one is gathering will eat. I.E. says that this part of the verse refers to minors. An omer for a head was for someone fully grown, for minors gather according to how much they consume.⁹⁴