Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Exodus 16:15
It is Manna:
Or, what is this? or it is a portion
It is Manna:
Or, what is this? or it is a portion
Verse Exodus 16:15. _THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, IT_ IS _MANNA: FOR THEY WIST_ _NOT WHAT IT_ WAS.] This is a most unfortunate translation, because it not only gives no sense, but it contradicts itself....
IT IS MANNA - “Man” or “man-hut,” i. e. white manna, was the name under which the substance was known to the Egyptians, and therefore to the Israelites. The manna of the Peninsula of Sinai is the swee...
XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f.,...
"IT IS MANNA". Hebrew. _man-hu. "_ What is that? for they knew not what 'that' was". See on Exodus 16:31. WIST. knew. From Anglo-Saxon, _witan, to_ know. IT. that. THIS. that....
THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, IT IS MANNA, &C.— There is a seeming contradiction in our version: we read, They said, _it is manna;_ and yet, in the next clause, it is added, _for they wist not what it was...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 16 And they took their journey from E-lim, and all the congregation of the children of Is-ra-el came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between E-Iim and Si-nai, on th...
_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._ They...
16:15 it? (c-15) 'What is it?' or 'gift' -- the meaning of Manna, ver. 31. Heb. _ man_ ....
IT _IS_ MANNA] Heb. 'what is it?' so rightly in RV. What is now known as manna is a sweet gum which exudes from various shrubs and from the tamarisk tree, and is used medicinally. None of its varietie...
THIRD MURMURING. SENDING OF THE MANNA 1. Pursuing their march southward, the Israelites come at the end of the first month after their departure from Egypt to the WILDERNESS OF SIN, forming the SW. bo...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 16 FOOD FROM HEAVEN – VERSES 1-36 GOD PROMISES FOOD – VERSES 1-12 V...
IT IS MANNA. — This is certainly a wrong translation. The words of the original, _man hu,_ must either be rendered, as in the LXX. And the Vulg., “What is this ?” Or, as by Kimchi, Knobel, Gesenius, K...
וַ יִּרְא֣וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַ יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ...
THE MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS Exodus 16:13 The manna was typical of Christ. See John 6:31. He came down from heaven to bring God's life within the reach of man. It is not enough that God has made so ri...
From Elim the people moved into the dreariness of the great wilderness and began to be conscious of the scarcity of some of the things which they had had, even in the midst of Egyptian slavery. There...
And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] (f) manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to e...
Manhu. St. Jerome adds the explanation, (Du Hamel) which is almost universally adopted, though some pretend that man, even in Chaldean, means who, and not what? Calmet refers them to Psalm lx. 7, for...
Manna, or as it is, Man-hu; that is, what is it? A nameless, great mercy: sweet and pleasant to the taste, and probably from its qualities medicinal also. Under how many and various ways was it recomm...
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
_BREAD FROM HEAVEN_ ‘The bread which the Lord hath given.’ Exodus 16:15 Six weeks of the desert, part of which was spent beside the wells and under the palm-trees of Elim, were enough to sicken the...
15._And when the children of Israel saw. _The Israelites manifested some appearance of gratitude in calling the food given them from heaven, _Man_, (178) which name means “something prepared;” but if...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 16 AND 17. But now the difficulties of the way arrive. They travel three days without water-a sad effect, in appearance, of such a deliverance; and then the w...
AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAW IT,.... As they could not but observe it, it being spread over the face of the wilderness; and besides, as they were told, that in the morning they should have brea...
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....
_They said one to another, It is manna_ The original words, מן הוא, _man hu_, should certainly have been rendered here, as they literally mean, _what is it?_ or _what is this?_ for it is plain, from w...
1 The Israelites come to Sin. 2 They murmure for want of bread. 4 God promiseth them bread from heauen. 11 Quailes are sent, 14 and Manna. 16 The ordering of Manna. 25 It was not to bee found on...
FIFTH SECTION The journey through the wilderness to Sinai. Want of water. Marah. Elim. The Wilderness of Sin. Quails. Manna. Rephidim (Massah and Meribah). The Amalekites. Jethro and his advice, a hu...
BREAD FROM HEAVEN FOR THE WILDERNESS (vs.1-36) Just one month following the Passover in Egypt, Israel, leaving the refreshment of Elim's oasis, came into "the wilderness of sin" (v.1). Sin means "tho...
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 MANNA; or, _What is this_ ? which best suits with the following reason, FOR THEY WIST NOT WHAT IT WAS. Man signifies what in the Egyptian tongue; and it is not strange that the Israelites use on...
"And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month af...
Exodus 16:15 children H1121 Israel H3478 saw H7200 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) one H376 another H251 it...
CHAPTER 16 GOD PROVIDES MANNA AND QUAILS FOR HIS PEOPLE - THE SIGN OF THE SEVENTH DAY (EXODUS 16:2). In this chapter God provides both meat and ‘bread' for His people. The passage continues to reveal...
MANNA (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 16:35). _...
Exodus 16:1. _And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the se...
CONTENTS: Murmuring of the people. Manna and quails given by God. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The believer is apt to forget a thousand mercies in the presence of one trifling privatio...
Exodus 16:1. _The fifteenth day of the second month;_ that is, Jiar, or the 30th of April. See the table, chap. 12. Exodus 16:2. _Israel murmured._ They wantonly said as in Psalms 78:20, Can the Lord...
_Manna._ THE MANNA I. Its mystic character. “What is this?” Christ was a mystery to His contemporaries. So is the Christian to his. “The world knoweth you not.” II. Its uses. To save from starvatio...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 16:15 The term “manna” (see v. Exodus 16:31) sounds like the Hebrew phrase “WHAT IS IT?” (see esv footnote)....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 16:13. Quails.] Heb. שלו. “so called from its fatness” (Gesenius). According to all accounts, the “quail” abounds in those regions. EXODUS 16:15. MANNA.] It is evidently prema...
EXPOSITION THE PROMISE FULFILLED. Moses had made a double promise to the Israelites in God's name. "The Lord shall give you," he had said," in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the...
The children of Israel are moving now through the wilderness. And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is betwee...
it is manna or what is this? or it is a portion Exodus 16:31 Exodus 16:33 Deuteronomy 8:3 Deuteronomy 8:16...
What is this? Manna descended from the clouds. It came down in dew melted, and yet was itself of such a consistency as to serve for nourishing strengthening food, without any thing else: It was pleasa...