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

and rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.

They asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with [the] bread of heaven.

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

and all ate the same spiritual food,

A certain rate every day

For [there was] a command of the king concerning them and a regulation concerning the singers, required {day by day}.

Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.

Give us today our daily bread,

Give us each day our daily bread.

Prove them

And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him [a piece of] wood, and he threw [it] into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them.

And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

General references

And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

and all ate the same spiritual food,