They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Parallel translations
- WEB They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
- KJV The people asked, and he brought quails, 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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Quick answer
When they asked, God gave them quail and satisfied them with manna. It matters because He provided food from heaven for His people in the desert.
Overview
In the wilderness God sent quail and the daily manna, the 'bread of the sky' (Exodus 16). He met their physical hunger with miraculous provision. Jesus later identified Himself as the true bread from heaven (John 6:32-35), the lasting nourishment the manna only foreshadowed.
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- Ps 78:18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Neh 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- Josh 5:12And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- John 6:31–33Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- Num 11:31–33Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
- Deut 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- John 6:48–58I am the bread of life.
- Ps 78:23–28Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- Exod 16:12–35“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
- Num 11:4–9Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
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