Exodus 16:31

Webster's Bible (1833)

The house of Israel called the name of it Manna,{"Mana" means "What is it?"} and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

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  • Exod 16:15 : 15 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."
  • Num 11:6-9 : 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on. 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. 8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, His fruit was sweet to my taste.

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  • Num 11:6-9
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    6but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.

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

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

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

  • Exod 16:12-16
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    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.'"

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

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

    15When 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."

    16This 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, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

  • Exod 16:32-36
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    32Moses 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."

    33Moses 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."

    34As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

    35The 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.

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

  • John 6:31-33
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    75%

    31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"

    32Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, 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.

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

  • Josh 5:11-12
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    11They ate of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the same day.

    12The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

  • Ps 78:24-25
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    24He rained down manna on them to eat, And gave them food from the sky.

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

  • Exod 16:30
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    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 16:21-25
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    21They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

    22It 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.

    23He 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."

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

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

  • Exod 16:3-5
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    3and 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 flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

    4Then said Yahweh 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.

    5It 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."

  • Exod 29:2
    68%

    2unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

  • Num 21:5
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    5The 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.

  • Exod 29:23
    68%

    23and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
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    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • Exod 16:18-19
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    18When 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.

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

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

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

  • Ps 105:40
    68%

    40They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

  • Josh 9:12
    67%

    12This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy:

  • John 6:58
    67%

    58This 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."

  • Deut 8:3
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    3He 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.

  • Deut 8:16
    67%

    16who 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:

  • Ezek 16:19
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    19My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 14:25
    67%

    25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

  • Deut 16:3
    67%

    3You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

  • Exod 16:8
    67%

    8Moses 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."