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Selected Verse: Exodus 16:20 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Ex 16:20	King James	Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
It bred worms - This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

It bred worms - This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
left As we are not nourished by the memory of food, so neither can spirituality be sustained on past appropriations of Christ.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]

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As we are not nourished by the memory of food, so neither can spirituality be sustained on past appropriations of Christ.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
It bred worms - Their sinful curiosity and covetousness led them to make the trial; and they had a mass of the most loathsome putrefaction for their pains. How gracious is God! He is continually rendering disobedience and sin irksome to the transgressor; that finding his evil ways to be unprofitable, he may return to his Maker, and trust in God alone.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

It bred worms - Their sinful curiosity and covetousness led them to make the trial; and they had a mass of the most loathsome putrefaction for their pains. How gracious is God! He is continually rendering disobedience and sin irksome to the transgressor; that finding his evil ways to be unprofitable, he may return to his Maker, and trust in God alone.

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