Exodus 16:8
8And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him— awhat are we? Your grumbling is not bagainst us but against the Lord.”Exodus 16:15
15When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, c“What is it?” ▼▼Or “It is manna.” Hebrew man hu
For they edid not know what it was. And Moses said to them, f“It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. Exodus 16:35
35The people of Israel gate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till hthey came to the border of the land of Canaan.Exodus 23:15
15 iYou shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of jAbib, for in it you came out of Egypt. kNone shall appear before me empty-handed.1 Kings 17:12-16
12And she said, l“As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” 13And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. 14For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” 15And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 16The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.2 Kings 4:42-44
42A man came from mBaal-shalishah, nbringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, o“Give to the men, that they may eat.” 43But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’” 44So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.2 Kings 7:1-2
Elisha Promises Food
1But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, pTomorrow about this time a seah ▼▼A seah was about 7 quarts or 7.3 liters
of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.” 2Then sthe captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, t“If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” Matthew 14:16-21
16But Jesus said, “They need not go away; uyou give them something to eat.” 17They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” 18And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 19Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, vhe looked up to heaven and wsaid a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 21And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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