And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
Parallel translations
- WEB and all ate the same spiritual food;
- BSB They all ate the same spiritual food
- NKJV all ate the same spiritual food,
- NASB and they all ate the same spiritual food,
- NLT All of them ate the same spiritual food,
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Quick answer
All Israel ate the same spiritual food—the manna God provided in the wilderness. They shared in God's supernatural provision.
Overview
Paul calls the manna "spiritual food" because it was miraculously given by God to sustain His people (Exod 16). All Israel partook of it, just as all the Corinthians partake of the Lord's Supper. The parallel continues to build his warning: shared participation in God-given spiritual benefits did not secure Israel against judgment, and the same caution applies to the Corinthian church and its sacramental confidence.
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- Deut 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
- Neh 9:15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
- Exod 16:35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
- Exod 16:4Then 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.
- Neh 9:20Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- Exod 16:15And 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.
- Ps 105:40The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- Ps 78:23–25Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
- John 6:22–58The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
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