Exodus 16:15 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

BSB

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ASV

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

KJV

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Letter 64.2 (397)

"This is the bread that God gave" to you "to eat." Hear who this bread is: "The word," Scripture says, "which God has ordained." This then is the ordination of God; this food nourishes the soul of the wise. It illuminates and it sweetens, resplendent with the gleam of truth and soothing, as if with a honeycomb, by the sweetness of different virtues and the word of wisdom. For "good words are sweeter than a honeycomb," as it is written in Proverbs.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

It is manna - “Man” or “man-hut,” i. e. white manna, was the name under which the substance was known to the Egyptians, and therefore to the Israelites. The manna of the Peninsula of Sinai is the sweet juice of the Tarfa, a species of tamarisk. It exudes from the trunk and branches in hot weather, and forms small round white grains. In cold weather it preserves its consistency, in hot weather it melts rapidly. It is either gathered from the twigs of tamarisk, or from the fallen leaves underneath the tree. The color is a greyish yellow.

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

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּרְא֣וּ	vai.yir.'U	and they saw	H7200 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ	vai.Yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אִ֤ישׁ	'ish	each	H376 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אָחִיו֙	'a.Chiv	brother his	H251 →
מָ֣ן	man	what?	H4478 →
ה֔וּא	Hu'	[is] it	H1931 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָדְע֖וּ	ya.de.'U	they knew	H3045 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
ה֑וּא	Hu'	[was] it	H1931 →
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מֹשֶׁה֙	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
אֲלֵהֶ֔ם	'a.le.Hem	to them	H413 →
ה֣וּא	hu'	it	H1931 →
הַלֶּ֔חֶם	ha.Le.chem	[is] the bread	H3899 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
נָתַ֧ן	na.Tan	he has given	H5414 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	to <the> you
לְאָכְלָֽה׃	le.'okh.Lah	to food	H402 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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
1 Corinthians 10:3
They all ate the same spiritual food
leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:3
  He 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,…
- Nehemiah 9:15
  In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to…
- Exodus 16:4
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I…
- Exodus 16:35
  The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- Nehemiah 9:20
  You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
Through
John 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
leads to
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
- John 6:47–51
  Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
Through
Exodus 16:4
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:3
  They all ate the same spiritual food