Exodus 16:13 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 16:13

That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

BSB

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ASV

And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp.

KJV

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up,.... From the coasts of Egypt, from the Red sea, over which they flew; and being evening, and weary with flying so long, lighted and settled where the Israelites encamped. Josephus (l) says, about the Arabian gulf there are more of this sort of birds than any other, which flying over the sea, and being weary, and coming nearer the ground than other birds, and lighting among the Hebrews, they took them with their hands as food prepared for them of God.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Quails - This bird migrates in immense numbers in spring from the south: it is nowhere more common than in the neighborhood of the Red Sea. In this passage we read of a single flight so dense that it covered the encampment. The miracle consisted in the precise time of the arrival and its coincidence with the announcement.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בָעֶ֔רֶב	va.'E.rev	in the evening	H6153 →
וַתַּ֣עַל	va.Ta.'al	and it came up	H5927 →
הַשְּׂלָ֔ו	ha.se.Lav	the quail	H7958 →
וַתְּכַ֖ס	va.te.Khas	and it covered	H3680 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
וּבַבֹּ֗קֶר	u.va.Bo.ker	and in the morning	H1242 →
הָֽיְתָה֙	ha.ye.Tah	it was	H1961 →
שִׁכְבַ֣ת	shikh.Vat	[the] layer of	H7902 →
הַטַּ֔ל	ha.Tal	the dew	H2919 →
סָבִ֖יב	sa.Viv	around	H5439 →
לַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃	La.ma.cha.Neh	<to> the camp	H4264 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 105:40
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
leads to
- Psalms 78:18
  They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Psalms 78:23–28
  Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- John 6:31–33
  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- John 6:48–58
  I am the bread of life.
- Joshua 5:12
  And 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…
Through
Numbers 11:9
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
leads to
- Exodus 16:13–14
  That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- Psalms 78:23–25
  Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 32:2
  Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

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06About Exodus

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Where the connections lead

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