Exodus 16:4

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people will go out and gather a day's portion every day so that I may test them to see whether or not they will walk in my law.

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In The King James Version

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

In Context

3The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger.”

5It will come about on the sixth day, that they will gather twice as much as what they gathered every day before, and they will cook what they bring in.”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:25Moses cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. Moses threw it into the water, and the water became sweet to drink. It was there that Yahweh gave them a strict law, and it was there that he tested them.

Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had never known, so that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end,

Nehemiah 9:15You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and water from a rock for their thirst, and you said to them to go in to possess the land you swore on oath to give them.

Nehemiah 11:23They were under orders from the king, and firm orders were given for the singers as every day required.

Psalms 105:40The Israelites asked for food, and he brought quail 1 and satisfied them with bread from heaven. 1

Matthew 6:11Give us today our daily bread. 2

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:2-13

The Israelites Murmur for Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt,… Read the whole commentary →

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