Exodus 16:14
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Exodus 16:14 in other translations
| BSB | When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. |
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| WEB | When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. |
| ASV | And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. |
| YLT | and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth. |
| DARBY | And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground. |
| BBE | And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth. |
| Webster | And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground: |
What does Exodus 16:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:13-31
13-31. at even the quails came up, and covered the camp--This bird is of the gallinaceous kind [that is, relating to the order of heavy-bodied, largely terrestrial birds], resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtledove. They are found in certain seasons in the places through which the Israelites passed, being migratory birds, and they were probably brought to the camp by "a wind from the Lord" as…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 16:13-21
At evening the quails came up, and the people caught with ease as many as they needed. The manna came down in dew. They called it "Manna, Manhu," which means, "What is this?" "It is a portion; it is that which our God has allotted us, and we will take it, and be thankful." It was pleasant food; it was wholesome food. The manna was rained from heaven; it appeared, when the dew was gone, as a small round thing, as…
Exodus 16:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 16:14
- 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 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
- 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 promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
- Psalms 105:40
The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- Psalms 78:24
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
- Numbers 11:7-9
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
- Psalms 147:16
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
- Exodus 16:31
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
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Context
- Exodus 16:13
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
- Exodus 16:14
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
- Exodus 16:15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y como el rocío cesó de descender, he aquí sobre la haz del desierto una cosa menuda, redonda, menuda como una helada sobre la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et la couche de rosée se leva, et voici sur la surface du désert quelque chose de menu, de grenu, quelque chose de menu comme la gelée blanche sur la terre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Tauschicht stieg auf, und siehe, da lags auf der Fläche der Wüste fein, körnig, fein, wie der Reif auf der Erde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque operuisset superficiem terræ, apparuit in solitudine minutum, et quasi pilo tusum in similitudinem pruinæ super terram. |