Exodus 16:4

New Century Version

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will cause food to fall like rain from the sky for all of you. Every day the people must go out and gather what they need for that day. I want to see if the people will do what I teach them.

Cross References

Nehemiah 11:23

The singers were under the king’s orders, which regulated them day by day.

Nehemiah 9:15

When they were hungry, you gave them bread from heaven. When they were thirsty, you brought them water from the rock. You told them to enter and take over the land you had promised to give them.

Nehemiah 9:20

You gave your good Spirit to teach them. You gave them manna to eat and water when they were thirsty.

Psalm 105:40

When they asked, he brought them quail and filled them with bread from heaven.

Psalm 78:23

But he gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.

Exodus 15:25

So Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw the tree into the water, the water became good to drink. There the Lord gave the people a rule and a law to live by, and there he tested their loyalty to him.

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “This is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep me from lying and being dishonest. And don’t make me either rich or poor; just give me enough food for each day.

Matthew 6:11

Give us the food we need for each day.

Luke 11:3

Give us the food we need for each day.

1 Corinthians 10:3

They all ate the same spiritual food,

Deuteronomy 8:16

and manna to eat in the desert. Manna was something your ancestors had never seen. He did this to take away your pride and to test you, so things would go well for you in the end.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

Joshua 24:15

But if you don’t want to serve the Lord, you must choose for yourselves today whom you will serve. You may serve the gods that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, or you may serve the gods of the Amorites who lived in this land. As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”