KJV King James Version
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
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John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
WEB World English Bible
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
ASV American Standard Version
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
Surrounding context — John 6
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?
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Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.1 Corinthians 10:3-5And did all eat the same spiritual meat;Hebrews 3:17-19But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?John 6:58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.John 6:31Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.Numbers 26:65For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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