Numbers 11:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:5 : 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.
  • 2 Sam 13:4 : 4 And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

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  • Num 11:4-5
    2 verses
    81%

    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?

    5Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

  • Num 11:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

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

    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.

  • Num 21:5
    77%

    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.

  • Exod 16:14-16
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    77%

    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.

  • Josh 9:12
    76%

    12This 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.

  • Exod 16:3
    76%

    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.

  • Exod 16:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • John 6:31
    75%

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

  • Exod 16:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35And 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.

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

  • Josh 5:12
    73%

    12And 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.

  • Deut 8:3
    73%

    3And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

  • Acts 7:11
    73%

    11Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

    5Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

    14And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • Exod 17:3
    73%

    3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • John 6:49
    72%

    49Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Num 11:20-22
    3 verses
    72%

    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?

  • Lam 5:9
    72%

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

  • Jer 2:6
    72%

    6And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Exod 16:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And 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?

    8And 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.

  • Ps 107:5
    72%

    5Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • Num 11:18
    71%

    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;

  • Num 11:13
    71%

    13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

  • Gen 47:13
    71%

    13Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

  • Num 17:12
    71%

    12And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

  • Exod 15:24
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    24And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

  • Lam 5:6
    70%

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

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • Ps 78:24
    70%

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

  • Deut 8:16
    70%

    16Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

  • Deut 1:19
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    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.

  • Exod 16:21
    70%

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

  • Num 20:16
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    16And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;