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Psalms 78:18
They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
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Nehemiah 9:20
You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.
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John 6:48-58
I am the bread of life.Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“ How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”Jesus said to them,“ I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.This 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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Numbers 11:31-33
Now a wind went out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
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John 6:31-33
Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘ He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”Then 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.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
So 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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Numbers 11:4-9
Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“ If only we had meat to eat!We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”( Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.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.And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
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Exodus 16:12-35
“ 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.’”In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.When the layer of dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, thin like frost on the earth.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.“ 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.’”The Israelites did so, and they gathered– some more, some less.When 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.Moses said to them,“ No one is to keep any of it until morning.”But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.And 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.He 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.’”So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.Moses said,“ Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the area.Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.So the LORD said to Moses,“ How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”So the people rested on the seventh day.The house of Israel called its name“ manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.Moses 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 desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”Moses 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.”Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.Now 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.
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Joshua 5:12
The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.
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Psalms 78:23-28
He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky.He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.
