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Complete Jewish Bible

Exodus 16:14

When the dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Israel;   Manna;   Miracles;   Sin;   Scofield Reference Index - Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Manna;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fulfillment;   Lord's Prayer, the;   Lord's Supper, the;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Frost;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bdellium;   Manna;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Heaven;   Hoarfrost, Hoar Frost;   Manna;   Omer;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Manna;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bdellium;   Dew;   Miracles;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Manna;   Quails;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bdellium;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Manna;   Ouches;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bdellium;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Dwarf;   Exodus, the Book of;   Frost;   Manna;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dew;   Invocation;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
King James Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Lexham English Bible
And the layer of dew came up, and there on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground.
New Century Version
When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost were on the desert ground.
New English Translation
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.
Amplified Bible
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine, flake-like thing, as fine as frost on the ground.
New American Standard Bible
When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the dewe that was fallen was ascended, beholde, a small round thing was vpon the face of the wildernes, small as the hoare frost on the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the layer of dew evaporated, and behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.
Contemporary English Version
After the dew had gone, the desert was covered with thin flakes that looked like frost.
Darby Translation
And when the dew that lay [round it] was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was [something] fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.
Easy-to-Read Version
After the dew was gone, something like thin flakes of frost was on the ground.
English Standard Version
And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
George Lamsa Translation
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a thin round crust, like the hoar frost on the ground.
Good News Translation
When the dew evaporated, there was something thin and flaky on the surface of the desert. It was as delicate as frost.
Christian Standard Bible®
When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground.
Literal Translation
And the layer of dew went up, and, behold, something small was on the face of the wilderness, scalelike, small like the hoarfrost on the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the dew was falle, beholde, there laye a thinge in the wildernes, thynne and small, as the horefrost vpon the grounde.
American Standard Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
Bible in Basic English
And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the deawe was gone, beholde, vpon the grounde in the wyldernesse there lay a small rounde thyng, as small as the hoare frost on the ground.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
King James Version (1611)
And when the dewe that lay was gone vp, behold, vpon the face of the wildernesse there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoare frost on the ground.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.
English Revised Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Berean Standard Bible
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne it hadde hilid the erthe, a litil thing, and as powned with a pestel, in the licnesse of an hoorfrost on erthe, apperide in the wildirnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth.
Update Bible Version
And when the dew that lay was gone up, look, on the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on the ground:
World English Bible
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
New King James Version
And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.
New Living Translation
When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground.
New Life Bible
When the water had gone, there were small white pieces all over the ground of the desert.
New Revised Standard
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.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and when the outpouring of dew went up, then lo! on the face of the desert, a thin flake, thin as hoar-frost on the earth,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
Revised Standard Version
And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

Contextual Overview

13 That evening, quails came up and covered the camp; while in the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. 14 When the dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Isra'el saw it, they asked each other, "Man hu? [What is it?]" because they didn't know what it was. Moshe answered them, "It is the bread which Adonai has given you to eat. 16 Here is what Adonai has ordered: each man is to gather according to his appetite — each is to take an ‘omer [two quarts] per person for everyone in his tent." 17 The people of Isra'el did this. Some gathered more, some less; 18 but when they put it in an ‘omer-measure, whoever had gathered much had no excess; and whoever had gathered little had no shortage; nevertheless each person had gathered according to his appetite. 19 Moshe told them, "No one is to leave any of it till morning." 20 But they didn't pay attention to Moshe, and some kept the leftovers until morning. It bred worms and rotted, which made Moshe angry at them. 21 So they gathered it morning after morning, each person according to his appetite; but as the sun grew hot, it melted.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the dew: Numbers 11:7-9, Deuteronomy 8:3, Nehemiah 9:15, Psalms 78:24, Psalms 105:40

the hoar frost: Psalms 147:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 8:11 - General Numbers 11:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 14:7
Next they turned back, came to ‘Ein-Mishpat (which is the same as Kadesh), and defeated all the country of the ‘Amaleki, and also the Emori, who lived in Hatzatzon-Tamar.
Genesis 21:31
This is why that place was called Be'er-Sheva [well of seven, well of an oath] — because they both swore an oath there.
Genesis 24:62
Meanwhile, Yitz'chak, one evening after coming along the road from Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i — he was living in the Negev —
Genesis 25:11
After Avraham died, God blessed Yitz'chak his son, and Yitz'chak lived near Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i.
Numbers 13:26
and went to Moshe, Aharon and the entire community of the people of Isra'el at Kadesh in the Pa'ran Desert, where they brought back word to them and to the entire community and showed them the fruit of the land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the dew that lay was gone up,.... Exhaled by the sun upon the rising of it:

behold, upon the face of the wilderness; upon the surface of it, all around the camp of Israel:

there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground; which is what is in the next verse called "manna". Before the sun rose there was nothing but a dew to be seen; when that was gone off through the force of the sun, then the manna appeared; which was but a "small thing", and very unpromising for food, and especially for such a vast number of people; and a "round" thing, for which it is after compared to a coriander seed, as is thought; though the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan do not interpret the word of the round form, but rather refer to its smallness; and which is expressed in the Vulgate Latin version,

"small, and as if beat with a pestle;''

and for its white colour, as well as its smallness, it looked like hoar frost on the ground. Jarchi says there were two dews, within which it lay as something covered in a box, and he seems to be right; for it is certain from Numbers 11:9, that there was a dew which fell first, and then the manna fell upon it; and from hence it is plain also, that there was a dew over the manna, which went up from it when the sun rose: and the design of this seems to be to keep this heavenly bread pure and clean for the Israelites, that it might neither partake of the dust nor sand of the wilderness where it fell, and that nothing might light upon it until the time of gathering it came. The Jews, in memory of this, will sometimes put bread upon the table between two table cloths n; and it is highly probable, that to this the allusion is of the "hidden manna" in Revelation 2:17, by which is meant our Lord Jesus Christ, the antitype of this manna, as will be observed as we pass on, in all the circumstances of it; the manna came with the dew, and was covered with it, and hid in it; Christ is the gift of God's free grace to the sons of men, and is exhibited in the word of grace, where he lies hid to men in the glory of his person and the fulness of his grace, until revealed and made known. The figure of the manna being "round", which is a perfect figure, may denote the perfection of Christ in his person, natures, and office; he being perfectly God and perfectly man, having all the essential perfections both of the divine and human natures in him, as well as all fulness of grace; and being made perfect through sufferings, is become a complete Saviour, and by his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, has perfected for ever his sanctified ones: and the manna being "small", may signify the meanness of Christ in the eyes of men in his state of humiliation, and the unpromising appearance he made of being the Saviour and King of Israel; the white colour of it may direct to the purity of Christ, to the holiness of his natures, and the beauty of his person, being white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousands.

n Vid. Fagium in loc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 16:14. Behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing — It appears that this small round thing fell with the dew, or rather the dew fell first, and this substance fell on it. The dew might have been intended to cool the ground, that the manna on its fall might not be dissolved; for we find from Exodus 16:21, that the heat of the sun melted it. The ground therefore being sufficiently cooled by the dew, the manna lay unmelted long enough for the Israelites to collect a sufficient quantity for their dally use.


 
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