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31 (A)Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

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31 Our fathers ate the manna(A) in the wilderness,(B) just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.[a](C)[b]

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  1. John 6:31 Bread miraculously provided by God for the Israelites
  2. John 6:31 Ex 16:4; Ps 78:24

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

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  1. John 6:31 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
  2. John 6:31 sn A quotation from Ps 78:24 (referring to the events of Exod 16:4-36).

31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[a]

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  1. 6:31 Exod 16:4; Ps 78:24.

31 (A)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, (B)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

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15 (A)“When they were hungry, you gave them bread from heaven,
    and water from a rock when they were thirsty.
You told them to take control of the land
    which you had promised to give them.

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15 You provided bread from heaven(A) for their hunger;
You brought them water from the rock(B) for their thirst.
You told them to go in and possess the land
You had sworn[a] to give them.(C)

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  1. Nehemiah 9:15 Lit lifted Your hand

15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn[a] to give them.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:15 tn Heb “had lifted your hand.”

15 “You gave them bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the rock when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go and take possession of the land you had sworn to give them.

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15 (A)You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and (B)brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you (C)told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

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