Exodus 16:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Common English Bible

⁴ Then the LORD said to Moses, “I’m going to make bread rain down from the sky for you. The people will go out each day and gather just enough for that day. In this way, I’ll test them to see whether or not they follow my Instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses: "Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Let the people go out and collect what is sufficient for each day, so that I may test them, as to whether or not they will walk in my law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you. Let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Exodus 16:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 11:23

For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

Nehemiah 9:15

Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Nehemiah 9:20

Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Psalm 105:40

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

Psalm 78:23

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

Exodus 15:25

And he cried to the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them,

Exodus 16:15

When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread;

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread;

1 Corinthians 10:3

and all ate the same supernatural food

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Joshua 24:15

And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”