Numbers 11:6
But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”
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- Num 21:5 : 5 And 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.”
- 2 Sam 13:4 : 4 He asked Amnon,“Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him,“I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”
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- Num 11:4-52 verses81%
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!
5We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
- Num 11:7-93 verses78%
7(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
8And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.
9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
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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.”
- Exod 16:14-163 verses77%
14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the wilderness was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.
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.’”
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12This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.
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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!”
- Exod 16:31-322 verses75%
31The house of Israel called its name“manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.
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.’”
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31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- Exod 16:35-362 verses74%
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.
36(Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
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12The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again. They ate from the produce of the land of Canaan that year.
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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.
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11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
- Num 20:4-52 verses73%
4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
5Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
- Num 16:13-142 verses73%
13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?
14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”
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3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
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49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- Exod 14:11-122 verses72%
11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
- Num 11:20-223 verses72%
20but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
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?”
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9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
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6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
- Exod 16:7-82 verses72%
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.”
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5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.
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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.
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13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’
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13But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
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12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!
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24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
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6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
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3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.
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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.
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19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
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21So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.
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16So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.