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Exodus 16:15

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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 eat.

In Context

14When 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.

16This is the thing which the LORD 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.’”

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Cross References

Exodus 16:31The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Numbers 21:5The 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, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Deuteronomy 8:16who 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;

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

Proverbs 9:5“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

John 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

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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