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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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 tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 6:31–33Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
- 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.
- John 6:48–58I am the bread of life.
- Ps 78:23–28Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
- 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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