Exodus 16:14

When the dew was gone, there on the surface of the wilderness were thin flakes like frost on the ground.

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In The King James Version

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

In Context

13It came about in the evening that quails came up and covered the camp. In the morning the dew lay round about the camp.

15When the people of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” They did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that Yahweh has given you to eat.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:31The people of Israel called that food “manna.” It was white like coriander seed, and its taste was like wafers made with honey.

Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, and made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known and which your fathers had not known. He did that to make you know that it is not by bread alone that people live; rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live.

Psalms 78:24He rained down manna for them to eat, 1 and gave them the grain from heaven. 1

Psalms 147:16He makes the snow like wool, 1 he scatters the frost like ashes. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:14-22

Manna Rained from Heaven. ( b. c. 1491.) 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to… Read the whole commentary →

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