Deuteronomy 1:31
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31 and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.(A)
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Isaiah 46:3-4
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3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from your birth,
carried from the womb;(A)
4 even to your old age I am he;
even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save.(B)
Acts 13:18
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18 For about forty years he put up with[a] them in the wilderness.(A)
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- 13.18 Other ancient authorities read cared for
Hosea 11:3-4
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3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up in my[a] arms,
but they did not know that I healed them.(A)
4 I led them with cords of human kindness,
with bands of love.
I was to them like those
who lift infants to their cheeks.[b]
I bent down to them and fed them.(B)
Isaiah 63:9
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9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:10-12
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10 He sustained[a] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(A)
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,(B)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(C)
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- 32.10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found
Isaiah 40:11
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11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms
and carry them in his bosom
and gently lead the mother sheep.(A)
Exodus 19:4
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4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.(A)
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Numbers 11:14
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14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.(A)
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Psalm 105:39-41
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39 He spread a cloud for a covering
and fire to give light by night.(A)
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(B)
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(C)
Numbers 11:11-12
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11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?(A)
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Exodus 16:1-17
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Bread from Heaven
16 The whole congregation of the Israelites set out from Elim and came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.(A) 2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.(B) 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”(C)
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not.(D) 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days.”(E) 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7 and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your complaining against the Lord. For what are we, that you complain against us?”(F) 8 And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and your fill of bread in the morning, because the Lord has heard the complaining that you utter against him—what are we? Your complaining is not against us but against the Lord.”
9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the Israelites: ‘Draw near to the Lord, for he has heard your complaining.’ ”(G) 10 And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the Israelites, they looked toward the wilderness, and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.(H) 11 The Lord spoke to Moses, 12 “I have heard the complaining of the Israelites; say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”
13 In the evening quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.(I) 14 When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the wilderness was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.(J) 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”[a] For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.(K) 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer per person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” 17 The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less.
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- 16.15 Or “It is manna”
Psalm 78:14-28
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14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(A)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(B)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(C)
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.(D)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(E)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(F)
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,(G)
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.(H)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(I)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(J)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(K)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(L)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
Nehemiah 9:12-23
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12 Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.(A) 13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(B) 14 and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.(C) 15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.(D)
16 “But they, our ancestors, acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;(E) 17 they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.(F) 18 Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,(G) 19 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.(H) 20 You gave your good spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouths and gave them water for their thirst.(I) 21 Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.(J) 22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner,[a] so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.(K) 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.(L)
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- 9.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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