Sentence:  On the morrow, the 16th, after having offered to God the "homer", they began eating the corn of the country; and the 17th the manna ceased to fall from heaven. What supports this calculation is, that the <WSD>"gomer</WSD>", or sheaf, was offered the 16th of Nisan, in broad day-light, though pretty late. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=a): a former Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3(nbsp)L or 2.1(nbsp)quarts.