Numbers 11:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 16:13 : 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.
  • Ps 105:40 : 40 At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
  • Ps 78:26-29 : 26 He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power. 27 He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea, 28 And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents. 29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;
  • Exod 10:13 : 13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.
  • Exod 10:19 : 19 And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.
  • Exod 15:10 : 10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

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  • Num 11:32-33
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    84%

    32And 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.

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

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    11And the Lord said to Moses,

    12The 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.

    13And 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.

    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.

    16This 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.

  • Ps 78:26-28
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    76%

    26He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

    27He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

    28And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

  • Ps 105:39-40
    2 verses
    76%

    39A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

    40At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.

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

  • 30Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

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    12And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

    13And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

  • 18And 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;

  • Exod 16:4-5
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    71%

    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.

    5And 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 11:20-22
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    70%

    20But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

    21Then 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.

    22Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

  • 19And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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    20And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

    21And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

    22And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

  • 34And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.

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

  • 1Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

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

  • 4And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

  • 10You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

  • 2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

  • 11Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.

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

  • 5And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

  • 16And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

  • 25And there was a voice from the top of the arch which was over their heads: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

  • 16But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

  • 33Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

  • 21And 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.

  • 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.

  • 12And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

  • 23And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

  • 18Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.

  • 14In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.