Exodus 16:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

I will rain

A certain rate every day

Prove them

Exodus 15:25

Deuteronomy 8:2

Joshua 24:15

General references

Genesis 5:22

1 Corinthians 10:3

Bible References

I will rain

He rained manna for them to eat;
He gave them grain from heaven.

They asked, and He brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

They all ate the same spiritual food,

A certain rate every day

There was, in fact, a command of the king regarding them, and an ordinance regulating the singers’ daily tasks.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.
Give me neither poverty nor wealth;
feed me with the food I need.

Give us today our daily bread.

Give us each day our daily bread.

Prove them

So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable.

He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.

Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”

General references

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

They all ate the same spiritual food,