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Exodus 16:3
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Bread from Heaven

1 And they ajourneyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and bSinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt.  
2 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel acomplained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.  
3 And the children of Israel said to them, a“Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, bwhen we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”  
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain abread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather1 a certain quota every day, that I may btest them, whether they will cwalk in My law or not.  
5 And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and ait shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”  
6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, a“At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt.  
7 And in the morning you shall see athe glory of the Lord; for He bhears your complaints against the Lord. But cwhat are we, that you complain against us?”  
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Exodus 16:3

By the hand of the Lord - This evidently refers to the plagues, especially the last, in Egypt: the death which befell the Egyptians appeared to the people preferable to the sufferings of famine.

Flesh pots, and ... bread - These expressions Proverbs that the servile labors to which they had been subjected did not involve privations: they were fed abundantly, either by the officials of Pharaoh, or more probably by the produce of their own fertile district.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Exodus 16:3:

Jeremiah 31:8
Hosea 2:6

 

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