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Manna and Quail
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
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The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
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Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”
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So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be kept for the generations to come.”
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As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.
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The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
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But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
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The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
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When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
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He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
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He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
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The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
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You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.
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he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
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Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
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Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
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This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
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which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
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Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
