Exodus 16:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “I have heard the complaining of the Israelites; say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites; speak to them, saying, At twilight you shall eat meat, and between the two evenings you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

Common English Bible

¹² “I’ve heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat. And in the morning you will have your fill of bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² "I have heard the murmuring of the sons of Israel. Say to them: 'In the evening, you will eat flesh, and in the morning, you will be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel. Say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 16:12 Cross References

1 Kings 20:28

A man of God approached and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord: Because the Arameans have said, ‘The Lord is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys,’ therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Psalm 105:40

They asked, and he brought quails and gave them food from heaven in abundance.

Exodus 12:6

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

Exodus 16:11

The Lord spoke to Moses,

Exodus 4:5

“so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 7:17

Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord.” See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.

Jeremiah 31:24

And Judah and all its towns shall live there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.

Ezekiel 34:30

They shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:13

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

Ezekiel 39:22

The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.

Joel 3:17

So you shall know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Numbers 11:4

The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

Numbers 14:27

“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.