Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the hoarfrost on the ground.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Holman Bible
When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground.
International Standard Version
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the desert a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost, appeared on the ground.
A Conservative Version
and when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoarfrost on the ground.
American Standard Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
Amplified
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine, flake-like thing, as fine as frost on the ground.
Bible in Basic English
And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.
Darby Translation
And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.
Julia Smith Translation
And the dew lying will go up, and behold, upon the face of the desert a small thing being peeled off thin, as pitch upon the earth.
King James 2000
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the layer of dew came up, {and there} on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground.
Modern King James verseion
And when the layer of dew had gone up, behold, there was a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoar-frost upon the ground.
NET Bible
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.
New Heart English Bible
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
The Emphasized Bible
and when the outpouring of dew went up, then lo! on the face of the desert, a thin flake, thin as hoar-frost on the earth,
Webster
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground:
World English Bible
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth.
Themes
Blessing » Temporal » From God » israelites » Supplying » Manna
Israel » Provision » Manna » Quail
Manna » Described as » Like hoar frost
Miracles » Catalogue of » Manna
Sin (place) » Desert of, a wilderness between elim and sinai » Manna and quail given in
Interlinear
`alah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 16:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Provides Food In The Desert
13 And at evening the quails came and covered the ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the hoarfrost on the ground. 15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is this?" For they wist not what it was. And Moses said, "This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Cross References
Numbers 11:7-9
The Manna was as it had been coriander seed, and to see to like bdellium.
Psalm 105:40
At their desire, there came quails; and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
Nehemiah 9:15
and gavest them bread from heaven when they were hungry, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock when they were thirsty: and promised them, that they should go in, and take possession of the land, over which thou hadst lift up thine hand for to give them.
Psalm 78:24
He rained down manna upon them for to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.
Exodus 16:31
And the house of Israel called it Manna. And it was like unto Coriander seed and white, and the taste of it was like unto wafers made with honey.
Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled thee and made thee hunger and fed thee with Manna, which neither thou nor thy father knew of, to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only: but by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD must a man live.
Psalm 147:16
He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.