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Exodus 16:11

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Then the LORD said to Moses,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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This verse in Exodus 16

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

they looked toward the desert

on Exodus 16:10-11

The glory appears in the cloud that has gone before them since 13:21. The pillar they have followed for a month turns out to have something inside it.

This site's exposition

Then the LORD said to Moses

Matthew Henry reads the glory and the word that follows it as God's own answer. He takes it as given to still the grumbling and to put honour on Moses and Aaron.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Many there are of whom we say that they are better fed than taught; but the Israelites were thus fed, that they might be taught. He led him about, he instructed him ( Deut. xxxii.

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And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Out of the bright and glorious cloud: saying; as follows:

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

The Israelites saw that Moses went to the glory of the Lord and spoke to God.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 16:11:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
SPEAK UNTO THEM, SAYING: AT DUSK YE SHALL EAT FLESH. This communication [ at dusk ye shall eat, etc.], had already been conveyed by Moses to Israel, 365 Above, Verse.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 16:12:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
It became clear to them that when Aaron spoke to them, they came near before the Lord.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 16:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke

    vaydaberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • לֵּאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 16 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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