Exodus 16:15

World English Bible (2000)

When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

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  • Exod 16:4 : 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
  • Exod 16:31 : 31 The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
  • Deut 8:3 : 3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
  • John 6:31-32 : 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'" 32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
  • John 6:58 : 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
  • 1 Cor 10:3 : 3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
  • Josh 5:12 : 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
  • Neh 9:15 : 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
  • Neh 9:20 : 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
  • Prov 9:5 : 5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
  • Luke 12:30 : 30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
  • Exod 16:33 : 33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
  • Num 21:5 : 5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

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  • Exod 16:30-33
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    86%

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

    31 The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

    32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

    33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

  • Exod 16:16-25
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    83%

    16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

    17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

    18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

    19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

    20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

    21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

    22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

    23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

    24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

    25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.

  • Exod 16:11-14
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    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

    13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

    14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

  • Exod 16:35-36
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    35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

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

  • Exod 16:3-8
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    3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

    4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

    5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

    6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

    7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

    8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

  • John 6:31-33
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    31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

    32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

    33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

  • Num 11:6-9
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    6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."

    7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

    8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

    9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

  • Ps 78:24-25
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    77%

    24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

    25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

  • Josh 5:12
    76%

    12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

  • Num 21:5
    76%

    5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

  • Deut 8:3
    74%

    3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

  • John 6:49-50
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    49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

  • Ps 105:40
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    40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

  • Num 11:18
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    18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.

  • Deut 8:16
    73%

    16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

  • John 6:58
    73%

    58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

  • Num 11:21
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    21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.'

  • Num 15:19
    72%

    19 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.