1 Corinthians 10:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
They all ate the same spiritual food,

Revised Standard Version
and all ate the same supernatural food

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and dyd all eate of one spirituall meate

Hebrew Names Version
and all ate the same spiritual food;

International Standard Version
and they all ate the same spiritual food,Exodus 16:15,35; Nehemiah 9:15,20, 35; Psalm 78:24;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
and they all ate the same spiritual food,

New Century Version
They all ate the same spiritual food,

Update Bible Version
and all ate the same spiritual food;

Webster's Bible Translation
And all ate the same spiritual food;

English Standard Version
and all ate the same spiritual food,

World English Bible
and all ate the same spiritual food;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
in the cloud and in the sea, And all ate the same spiritual meat,

Weymouth's New Testament
All ate the same spiritual food,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and alle eeten the same spiritual mete,

English Revised Version
and did all eat the same spiritual meat;

Berean Standard Bible
They all ate the same spiritual food

Contemporary English Version
All of them also ate the same spiritual food

Amplified Bible
and all [of them] ate the same spiritual food;

American Standard Version
and did all eat the same spiritual food;

Bible in Basic English
And they all took the same holy food;

Complete Jewish Bible
also they all ate the same food from the Spirit,

Darby Translation
and all ate the same spiritual food,

Etheridge Translation
3 Musha were baptized in the cloud and in the sea, and all of them ate one spiritual food, [fn] and all of them drank one spiritual drink; [fn]

Murdock Translation
and they all ate the same spiritual food;

King James Version (1611)
And did all eat the same spirituall meat:

New Living Translation
All of them ate the same spiritual food,

New Life Bible
All of them ate the same holy food.

New Revised Standard
and all ate the same spiritual food,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And did all eat the same spiritual meat,

George Lamsa Translation
And all ate the same spiritual food;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all, did eat the samespiritual food,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And did all eat the same spiritual food:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And dyd all eate of one spirituall meate.

Good News Translation
All ate the same spiritual bread

Christian Standard Bible®
They all ate the same spiritual food,

King James Version
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

Lexham English Bible
and all ate the same spiritual food,

Literal Translation
and all ate the same spiritual food.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the same spiritual food did eat,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and dyd all eate of one spirituall meate,

Mace New Testament (1729)
they all eat the same spiritual meat,

New English Translation
and all ate the same spiritual food,

New King James Version
all ate the same spiritual food,

Simplified Cowboy Version
They all ate the same food from heaven

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and all ate the same spiritual food;

Legacy Standard Bible
and all ate the same spiritual food;

Contextual Overview

¹Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea. They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslaving death to salvation life. They all ate and drank identical food and drink, meals provided daily by God. They drank from the Rock, God's fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the Rock was Christ. But just experiencing God's wonder and grace didn't seem to mean much—most of them were defeated by temptation during the hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:15, Exodus 16:35, Deuteronomy 8:3, Nehemiah 9:15, Nehemiah 9:20, Psalms 78:23-25, Psalms 105:40, John 6:22-58

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:9 - the faithful Psalms 78:13 - He divided Psalms 78:24 - had rained Psalms 91:6 - destruction John 6:31 - He gave John 6:49 - and are 1 Corinthians 2:13 - spiritual things 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but God 1 Corinthians 10:17 - that 1 Corinthians 11:24 - this

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
"Raise the signal in the land, blow the shofar-trumpet for the nations. Consecrate the nations for holy work against her. Call kingdoms into service against her. Enlist Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a field marshal against her, and round up horses, locust hordes of horses! Consecrate the nations for holy work against her— the king of the Medes, his leaders and people.

Ezekiel 27:14
"‘Beth-togarmah traded work horses, war horses, and mules for your products.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And did all eat the same spiritual meat. Meaning the manna; and which the Jews also call h מאכל רוחני, "spiritual food", as also their sacrifices, i לחם רוחני, "spiritual bread": not that the manna was so in own nature; it was corporeal food, and served for the nourishment of the body; but either because it was prepared by angels, who are ministering spirits, at the command of God, and hence called angels' food, Psalms 78:25 or rather because it had a mystical and spiritual meaning in it; it was not the true bread, but was typical of Christ, who is so: it resembled Christ in its original; it was prepared of God, as Christ is, as his salvation prepared before the face of all his people; it was the free gift of God, as Christ is to the mystical Israel; it came down from heaven, as Christ, the true bread of life did: it answered to him in its nature; it was in form round, expressive of his being from everlasting to everlasting, and of the perfection both of his divine and human natures; it was in colour white, signifying his purity of nature, and holiness of life and conversation; it was in quantity small, setting forth his outward meanness and despicableness in the eyes of men; and in quality it was sweet in taste, as Christ, and all the blessings and fruits of his grace are to believers. The usefulness of the manna was very great, a vast number, even all the Israelites, were supplied with it, and supported by it for forty years together, as all the elect of God, and the whole family of Christ are by the fulness of grace which is in him; and as in order that it might be proper and suitable food, it was ground in mills, or beaten in a mortar, and baked in pans; so Christ was bruised, and wounded, and endured great sufferings, and death itself, that he might be agreeable food for our faith: and as the Israelites had all an equal quantity of this food, none had more or less than others, so all the saints have an equal share and interest in Christ, in his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; as they have the same like precious faith, they have the same object of it. To say no more, as the manna was the food of the wilderness, or of the people of Israel, whilst travelling in it, so Christ, and the fulness of grace that is in him, are the food and supply of the spiritual Israel, and church of God, whilst they are passing through this world to the heavenly glory. Now, though all the Israelites did not eat of Christ, the true bread, which was typified by the manna; yet they all ate the same food, which had a spiritual meaning in it, and a respect to Christ, but did not all enter into the land flowing with milk and honey.

h Yade Mose in Shemot Rabba, fol. 109. 3. i Tzeror Hammor, fol. 93. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And did all eat the same spiritual meat - That is, “manna.” Exodus 16:15, Exodus 16:35; Nehemiah 9:15, Nehemiah 9:20. The word meat here is used in the old English sense of the word, to denote “food” in general. They lived on “manna.” The word “spiritual” here is evidently used to denote that which was given by the Spirit, or by God; that which was the result of his miraculous gift, and which was not produced in the ordinary way, and which was not the gross food on which people are usually supported. It had an excellency and value from the fact that it was the immediate gift of God, and is thus called “angels food.” Psalms 78:25. It is called by Josephus “divine and extraordinary food.” Ant. Psalms 3:1. In the language of the Scriptures, that which is distinguished for excellence, which is the immediate gift of God, which is unlike that which is gross and of earthly origin, is called “spiritual,” to denote its purity, value, and excellence. Compare Romans 7:14; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 15:44, 1 Corinthians 15:46; Ephesians 1:3. The idea of Paul here is, that all the Israelites were nourished and supported in this remarkable manner by food given directly by God; that they all had thus the evidence of the divine protection and favor, and were all under his care.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 10:3. Spiritual meat — The manna which is here called spiritual.

1. Because it was provided supernaturally; and,

2. Because it was a type of Christ Jesus, who speaking of it, John 6:31, &c., tells us that it was a type of that true bread which came down from heaven, which gives life to the world, John 6:33, and that himself was the bread of life, John 6:48.