Exodus 16:31
The house of Israel called its name“manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.
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- Exod 16:15 : 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.
- Num 11:6-9 : 6 But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!” 7 (Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. 9 And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
- Song 2:3 : 3 The Beloved about Her Lover: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
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- Num 11:6-94 verses83%
6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”
7(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
8And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.
9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
- Exod 16:12-165 verses83%
12“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them,‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’”
13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.
14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the wilderness was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.
15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.
16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”
- Exod 16:32-365 verses80%
32Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”
33Moses said to Aaron,“Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the LORD to be kept for generations to come.”
34Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.
35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
36(Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
- John 6:31-333 verses75%
31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32Then Jesus told them,“I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.
33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
- Josh 5:11-122 verses74%
11They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.
12The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again. They ate from the produce of the land of Canaan that year.
- Ps 78:24-252 verses74%
24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.
25Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.
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30So the people rested on the seventh day.
- Exod 16:21-255 verses73%
21So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.
22And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.
23He said to them,“This is what the LORD has said:‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
24So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.
25Moses said,“Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the area.
- Exod 16:3-53 verses73%
3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
4Then the LORD said to Moses,“I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?
5On the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather every other day.”
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2and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil– you are to make them using fine wheat flour.
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5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”
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23and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the LORD.
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29honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”
- Exod 16:18-192 verses68%
18When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.
19Moses said to them,“No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
- John 6:49-502 verses68%
49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.
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40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.
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12This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.
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58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
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16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
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19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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25Now the whole army entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.
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3You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt.
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8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”