Joshua 9:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Josh 9:4-5 : 4 Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord; 5 And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

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  • Josh 9:13
    85%

    13And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.

  • Josh 9:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;

    5And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

    6And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Josh 9:11
    81%

    11So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Num 11:6
    76%

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

  • Lam 5:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

    10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

  • Exod 12:34
    72%

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

  • Exod 16:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

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

    15And 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.

  • Exod 12:39
    71%

    39And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.

  • Num 11:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The 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.

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

  • Deut 1:25
    70%

    25And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Exod 16:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

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

    32And 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.

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Lam 5:6
    69%

    6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

  • 2 Sam 17:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

    29And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

  • John 6:31
    69%

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

  • Num 21:5
    69%

    5And 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.

  • Neh 5:3
    69%

    3And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

  • Exod 16:21
    68%

    21And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.

  • 1 Sam 21:6
    68%

    6So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

  • 1 Sam 9:7
    68%

    7Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?

  • Exod 16:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

    4Then 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.

  • Neh 9:15
    68%

    15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Neh 9:36
    68%

    36Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

  • Exod 16:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23And 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.

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

  • Josh 5:11
    68%

    11And 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.

  • Joel 1:17
    68%

    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Jer 35:9
    68%

    9Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

  • Judg 19:19
    68%

    19But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

  • 1 Kgs 13:9
    68%

    9For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

  • Gen 18:5
    67%

    5And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

  • Lev 26:10
    67%

    10And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;

  • Deut 26:9
    67%

    9And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ezek 4:9
    67%

    9And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

    13And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

  • Deut 29:5
    67%

    5For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

  • Ezra 4:14
    67%

    14Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

  • Deut 16:3
    67%

    3Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.

  • Jer 52:6
    67%

    6In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

  • Gen 43:2
    67%

    2And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.