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Exodus Chapter 16

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EXODUS

Exodus 16

1They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to 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.
Numbers 33:10, Numbers 33:12, Numbers 33:10, Numbers 33:12, Exodus 17:1
2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against 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, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:5, Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:5, Numbers 20:3
4Then said the Lord to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test 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
5It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
Exodus 16:22, Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:22, Exodus 16:23, Exodus 35:2
6Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
Exodus 6:7, Exodus 6:7, Numbers 16:28, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 16:13
7and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the Lord; because he hears your murmurings against the Lord. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
Numbers 16:11, Isaiah 40:5, Numbers 16:11, Isaiah 40:5, John 11:40
8Moses said, "Now the Lord shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because the Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are 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 said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
Numbers 16:16, Numbers 16:16, Exodus 16:8, Exodus 16:2, Exodus 16:8
10It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 16:7, Exodus 16:7, Numbers 16:19, Numbers 16:42, Numbers 16:19
11The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
12"I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with 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
13It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
Numbers 11:9, Numbers 11:9, Psalms 105:40, Psalms 78:27, Psalms 78:28
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.
Numbers 11:7, Numbers 11:9, Numbers 11:7, Numbers 11:9, Deuteronomy 8:3
15When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat."
Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:31, John 6:58, John 6:31
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."
Exodus 16:36, Exodus 16:36, Exodus 16:18, Exodus 16:18, Exodus 16:32
17The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
18When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
2 Corinthians 8:14, 2 Corinthians 8:15, 2 Corinthians 8:14, 2 Corinthians 8:15
19Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
Exodus 23:18, Exodus 12:10, Exodus 23:18, Exodus 12:10, Matthew 6:34
20Notwithstanding they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
Luke 12:15, Matthew 6:19, James 5:2, James 5:3, Numbers 16:15
21They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 6:11, 2 Corinthians 6:2, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Ecclesiastes 9:10
22It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
Exodus 16:5, Exodus 16:5, Exodus 16:16, Exodus 34:31, Leviticus 25:22
23He said to them, "This is that which the Lord has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"
Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:3, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:15
24They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
Exodus 16:20, Exodus 16:20, Exodus 16:33, Exodus 16:33
25Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you shall not find it in the field.
Exodus 16:23, Exodus 16:23, Nehemiah 9:14, Exodus 16:29, Nehemiah 9:14
26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
Luke 13:14, Deuteronomy 5:13, Ezekiel 46:1, Exodus 20:9, Exodus 20:11
27It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 20:4
28The Lord said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Psalms 78:10, Psalms 78:10, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:13, Ezekiel 20:13
29Behold, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
Exodus 31:13, Isaiah 58:13, Isaiah 58:14, Exodus 31:13, Isaiah 58:13
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
Hebrews 4:9, Leviticus 23:3, Deuteronomy 5:12, Deuteronomy 5:14, Hebrews 4:9
31The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exodus 16:15, Numbers 11:6, Numbers 11:9, Song of Solomon 2:3, Exodus 16:15
32Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"
Psalms 105:5, Psalms 105:5, Psalms 111:4, Psalms 111:5, Luke 22:19
33Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations."
Hebrews 9:4, Hebrews 9:4
34As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 27:21, Exodus 27:21, Exodus 25:16, Exodus 25:21, Exodus 25:16
35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
Nehemiah 9:20, Nehemiah 9:21, Nehemiah 9:20, Nehemiah 9:21, Joshua 5:12
36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Exodus 16:16, Exodus 16:16, Exodus 16:32, Exodus 16:33, Exodus 16:32

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