They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
Parallel translations
- KJV The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- BSB They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- NKJV The people asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- NASB They asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- NLT They asked for meat, and he sent them quail; he satisfied their hunger with manna—bread from heaven.
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- Ps 78:18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
- Num 11:31–33A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
- Josh 5:12The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Neh 9:20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
- Ps 78:23–28Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
- John 6:48–58I am the bread of life.
- John 6:31–33Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
- Exod 16:12–35“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 Yahweh your God.’”
- Num 11:4–9The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
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