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Exodus Chapter 16

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Exodus 16

1And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 33:10, Numbers 33:12, Numbers 33:10, Numbers 33:12, Exodus 17:1
2And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Exodus 15:24, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Exodus 15:24, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Psalms 106:25
3And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:5, Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:5, Numbers 20:3
4And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.
Psalms 78:24, Psalms 78:25, 1 Corinthians 10:3, Psalms 78:24, Psalms 78:25
5But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.
Exodus 16:22, Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:22, Exodus 16:23, Exodus 35:2
6And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:
Exodus 6:7, Exodus 6:7, Numbers 16:28, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13
7And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?
Numbers 16:11, Isaiah 40:5, Numbers 16:11, Isaiah 40:5, John 11:40
8And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.
Romans 13:2, Romans 13:2, 1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 8:7, Numbers 14:27
9Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your murmuring.
Numbers 16:16, Numbers 16:16, Exodus 16:8, Exodus 16:2, Exodus 16:8
10And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
Exodus 16:7, Exodus 16:7, Numbers 16:19, Numbers 16:42, Numbers 16:19
11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.
Joel 3:17, Joel 3:17, Ezekiel 39:22, Exodus 6:7, Ezekiel 39:22
13So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.
Numbers 11:9, Numbers 11:9, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 78:27, Psalms 78:28
14And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
Numbers 11:7, Numbers 11:9, Numbers 11:7, Numbers 11:9, Deuteronomy 8:3
15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:31, John 6:58, John 6:31
16This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.
Exodus 16:36, Exodus 16:36, Exodus 16:18, Exodus 16:18, Exodus 16:32
17And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.
18And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.
2 Corinthians 8:14, 2 Corinthians 8:15, 2 Corinthians 8:14, 2 Corinthians 8:15
19And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.
Exodus 23:18, Exodus 12:10, Exodus 23:18, Exodus 12:10, Matthew 6:34
20And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses was angry with them.
Luke 12:15, Matthew 6:19, James 5:2, James 5:3, Numbers 16:15
21Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.
Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 6:11, 2 Corinthians 6:2, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Ecclesiastes 9:10
22But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.
Exodus 16:5, Exodus 16:5, Exodus 16:16, Exodus 34:31, Leviticus 25:22
23And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.
Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:3, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:15
24And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify, neither was there worm found in it.
Exodus 16:20, Exodus 16:20, Exodus 16:33, Exodus 16:33
25And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:23, Nehemiah 9:14, Exodus 16:29, Nehemiah 9:14
26Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
Luke 13:14, Deuteronomy 5:13, Ezekiel 46:1, Exodus 20:9, Exodus 20:11
27And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 20:4
28And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?
Psalms 78:10, Psalms 78:10, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:13, Ezekiel 20:13
29See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.
Exodus 31:13, Isaiah 58:13, Isaiah 58:14, Exodus 31:13, Isaiah 58:13
30And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
Hebrews 4:9, Leviticus 23:3, Deuteronomy 5:12, Deuteronomy 5:14, Hebrews 4:9
31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.
Exodus 16:15, Numbers 11:6, Numbers 11:9, Song of Solomon 2:3, Exodus 16:15
32And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
Psalms 105:5, Psalms 105:5, Psalms 111:4, Psalms 111:5, Luke 22:19
33And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto your generations,
Hebrews 9:4, Hebrews 9:4
34As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.
Exodus 27:21, Exodus 27:21, Exodus 25:16, Exodus 25:21, Exodus 25:16
35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
Nehemiah 9:20, Nehemiah 9:21, Nehemiah 9:20, Nehemiah 9:21, Joshua 5:12
36Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.
Exodus 16:16, Exodus 16:16, Exodus 16:32, Exodus 16:33, Exodus 16:32

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