John 6:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as the Scripture says, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat. [Exod. 16:15; Neh. 9:15; Ps. 78:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Common English Bible

³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

John 6:31 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:15

and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst lifted up thine hand to give them.

Nehemiah 9:20

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Psalm 105:40

They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Exodus 16:35

And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

John 6:32

Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.

John 6:49

Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

John 6:58

This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

1 Corinthians 10:3

and did all eat the same spiritual meat;

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Joshua 5:12

And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Revelation 2:17

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.