Numbers 11:9

When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

In Context

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.

10And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:13And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.

Psalms 78:23And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →

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