Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Parallel translations
- KJV Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
- BSB Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
- ESV Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- NKJV Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
- NASB Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
- NLT Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.
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Cross-references · 7
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- 1 Cor 10:3–5and all ate the same spiritual food;
- Heb 3:17–19With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Num 26:65For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Zech 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- John 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
- John 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
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