Psalm 105:40 {104:40}
Good News Translation
They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.

New Revised Standard Version
They asked, and he brought quails, and gave them food from heaven in abundance.

Contemporary English Version
When they asked for food, he sent more birds than they could eat.

New American Bible
They asked and he brought them quail; with bread from heaven he filled them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

asked

Psalm 78:18,26-28 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. . . .

Exodus 16:12,13 I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. . . .

Numbers 11:4-6,31-33 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

satisfied

Exodus 16:14-35 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. . . .

Numbers 11:7-9 Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.

Nehemiah 9:20 And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.

bread

Psalm 78:23-25 And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven. . . .

John 6:31-33,48-58 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. . . .

Context
Tell of His Wonders
39He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night. 40They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.41He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.…
Cross References
John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Exodus 16:4
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Exodus 16:12
I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 16:13
So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

Exodus 16:14
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.

Exodus 16:15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

Numbers 11:31
And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.

Nehemiah 9:15
And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.

Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Psalm 78:24
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

Psalm 78:27
And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Psalm 105:39
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