Holy Scripture

Exodus 16:15

A church father on this verse
“"This is the bread that God gave" to you "to eat." Hear who this bread is: "The word," Scripture says, "which God has ordained." This then is the ordination of God; this food nourishes the soul of the wise. It illuminates and it sweetens, resplendent with the gleam of truth and soothing, as if with a honeycomb, by the…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 64.2

Source: Septuagint

Original

15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is this? for they knew not what it was; and Moses said to them,

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In context

13And it was evening, and quails came up and covered the camp:

14in 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.

— Exodus 16:15 —

16This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, an omer for each person, according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow lodgers.

17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some much and some less.

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