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Psalms 78:18
They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.
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Nehemiah 9:20
You sent 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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John 6:48-58
I am the bread of life.Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”At that, the Jews argued among themselves,“ How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”So Jesus said to them,“ I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate— and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Numbers 11:31-33
A wind sent by the Lord came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them at the camp all around, three feet off the ground, about a day’s journey in every direction.The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail— the one who took the least gathered 50 bushels— and they spread them out all around the camp.While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.
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John 6:31-33
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”Jesus said to them,“ I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
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Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
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Numbers 11:4-9
Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said,“ Who will feed us meat?We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
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Exodus 16:12-35
“ I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.”So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground.When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another,“ What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them,“ It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.This is what the Lord has commanded:‘ Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.When they measured it by quarts, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.Moses said to them,“ No one is to let any of it remain until morning.”But they didn’t listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.He told them,“ This is what the Lord has said:‘ Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.’”So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn’t smell or have any maggots in it.“ Eat it today,” Moses said,“ because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you won’t find any in the field.For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.Then the Lord said to Moses,“ How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”So the people rested on the seventh day.The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.Moses said,“ This is what the Lord has commanded:‘ Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”Moses told Aaron,“ Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved throughout your generations.”As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.
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Joshua 5:12
And the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. Since there was no more manna for the Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan that year.
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Psalms 78:23-28
He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.He rained manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by His might.He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.He made them fall in His camp, all around His tent.
