Psalms 78:24
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
KJV
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
ASV
וַ/יַּמְטֵ֬ר עֲלֵי/הֶ֣ם מָ֣ן לֶ/אֱכֹ֑ל וּ/דְגַן שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם נָ֣תַן לָֽ/מוֹ
Hebrew
And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them.
YLT
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
דָּגָן֙
dgn
noun · 38×
יַמְטֵ֥ר
ymtr
verb · 17×
ם
m
verb · 811×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מָּן֙
mn
noun · 14×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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John 6:31 · adapted"Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."Psalm 78: he gave them bread from heaven to eat — crowd quotes to Jesus
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Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Now then after that in every way he had shown her to be very exceedingly great, again he does so from another most important head, by a fresh comparison exalting her dignity, and saying thus; but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease. For if both these were brought in in order to the faith; when that is every where s…
Cross-references
- Deut 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
- Exod 16:4 — Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law,
- Exod 16:4 — Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law,
- Exod 16:14 — 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.
- Exod 16:14 — 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.
- Exod 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
- John 6:31 — Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- John 6:31 — Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
- Neh 9:15 — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hads
- Neh 9:15 — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hads
- Ps 68:9 — Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
- Ps 105:40 — The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.