Numbers 11:9
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New International Version (©2011)
When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it.

NET Bible (©2006)
And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When dew fell on the camp at night, manna fell with it.)

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

American King James Version
And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

American Standard Version
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.

Darby Bible Translation
And when the dew fell upon the camp by night, the manna fell upon it.

English Revised Version
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

World English Bible
When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Young's Literal Translation
And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna descendeth upon it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:4-9 Man, having forsaken his proper rest, feels uneasy and wretched, though prosperous. They were weary of the provision God had made for them, although wholesome food and nourishing. It cost no money or care, and the labour of gathering it was very little indeed; yet they talked of Egypt's cheapness, and the fish they ate there freely; as if that cost them nothing, when they paid dearly for it with hard service! While they lived on manna, they seemed exempt from the curse sin has brought on man, that in the sweat of his face he should eat bread; yet they speak of it with scorn. Peevish, discontented minds will find fault with that which has no fault in it, but that it is too good for them. Those who might be happy, often make themselves miserable by discontent. They could not be satisfied unless they had flesh to eat. It is evidence of the dominion of the carnal mind, when we want to have the delights and satisfaction of sense. We should not indulge in any desire which we cannot in faith turn into prayer, as we cannot when we ask meat for our lust. What is lawful of itself becomes evil, when God does not allot it to us, yet we desire it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - And when the dew fell,... the manna fell upon it. We know from Exodus 16:14 that when the dew evaporated in the morning it left a deposit of manna upon the ground; we learn here that the manna fell upon the dew during the night. Now the dew is deposited in the cool of the night beneath a clear sky, when radiation of heat goes on uninterruptedly from the earth's surface; it is clear, therefore, that the manna was let fall in some way beyond human experience from the upper air. What possible physical connection there could be between the dew and the manna we cannot tell. To the untaught mind, however, the dew seemed to come more directly than any other gift of nature from the clear sky which underlay the throne of God; and thus the Jew was led to look upon the manna too as coming to him day by day direct front the storehouse of heaven (cf. Psalm 78:23, 24; Psalm 105:40).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,.... As it usually, and even constantly did:

the manna fell upon it; as constantly, and had thereby a clean place to fall on; and then another dew fell upon that, which kept it the cleaner still, and from any vermin creeping upon it; see Exodus 16:14; so careful was the Lord of this their provision, and so constantly every morning were they supplied with it: and which fell in the night when they were asleep, and at rest, and without any labour of theirs; and was ready to their hands when they arose, and had nothing to do but gather it; and yet were so ungrateful as to make light of it, and despise it.

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The People Complain
…7And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium. 8And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Exodus 16:13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Exodus 16:14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor.
Numbers 11:8 The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
Numbers 11:10 Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.