Exodus 16:12

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“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them,‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 6:7 : 7 I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
  • Joel 3:17 : 17 The LORD’s Presence in Zion You will be convinced that I the LORD am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy– conquering armies will no longer pass through it.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘These are my people,’ and they will say,‘The LORD is my God.’”
  • Exod 4:5 : 5 “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
  • Exod 7:17 : 17 This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.
  • Exod 16:7-8 : 7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?” 8 Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”
  • Jer 31:24 : 24 The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.
  • Ezek 34:30 : 30 Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Ezek 39:22 : 22 Then the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 16:2-9
    8 verses
    83%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

    3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

    4Then the LORD said to Moses,“I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?

    5On the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather every other day.”

    6Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites,“In the evening you will know that the LORD has brought you out of the land of Egypt,

    7and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”

    8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

    9Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

  • Exod 16:11
    82%

    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 11:18
    81%

    18“And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

  • Exod 16:13
    78%

    13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

  • Exod 16:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.

    16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

  • Exod 16:32
    76%

    32Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”

  • Num 11:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21Moses said,“The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say,‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

    22Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

  • Num 11:13
    76%

    13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

  • Num 14:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

    28Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

  • Num 11:4
    72%

    4Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!

  • Exod 16:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.

    22And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

    23He said to them,“This is what the LORD has said:‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”

  • Deut 8:16
    72%

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • Deut 8:3
    71%

    3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.

  • Num 11:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Ezek 16:19
    71%

    19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Exod 16:25
    71%

    25Moses said,“Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the area.

  • Deut 29:6
    71%

    6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

  • Exod 16:35
    71%

    35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  • Neh 9:15
    71%

    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Ezek 4:13
    71%

    13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

  • Ps 105:40
    71%

    40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

  • Num 21:5
    70%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Lev 18:2
    70%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘I am the LORD your God!

  • Deut 11:15
    70%

    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Num 15:18
    70%

    18“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

  • Deut 16:7
    70%

    7You must cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

  • Num 11:1
    70%

    1The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

  • Num 11:9
    70%

    9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

  • Ps 78:29
    70%

    29They ate until they were beyond full; he gave them what they desired.

  • Lev 22:30
    69%

    30On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD.

  • Num 16:41
    69%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 14:13
    69%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Ps 78:24
    69%

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.