Exodus 16:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.

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  • Prov 6:6-9 : 6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: 7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
  • 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 (For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):

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  • 82%

    22 And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it.

    23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

    24 And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms.

    25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.

    26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

    27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.

  • Exod 16:11-20
    10 verses
    81%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

    12 The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.

    13 And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.

    14 And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.

    15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

    16 This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

    17 And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.

    18 And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.

    19 And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.

    20 But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them.

  • Exod 16:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

    5 And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.

  • Num 11:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

    6 But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

    7 Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

    8 The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

    9 When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

  • 76%

    29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.

    31 And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

    32 And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

    33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.

  • Num 11:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31 Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.

    32 And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

  • 71%

    35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

    36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

  • 21 And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward.

  • Exod 16:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?

    8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

  • 21 Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

  • 18 And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

  • 3 And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

  • 12 This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

  • 24 And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

  • Josh 5:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

    12 And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

  • 10 Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire.

  • 5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

  • 13 Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

  • 2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

  • 31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

  • 34 And the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs.

  • 21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

  • 16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.