Manna
Manna
Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness - Ex 16:4,15; Ne 9:15
CALLED
Previously unknown - De 8:3,16
DESCRIBED AS
- Like coriander seed
- Ex 16:31; Nu 11:7 - White
- Ex 16:31 - Like in colour to bdellium
- Nu 11:7 - Like in taste to wafers made with honey
- Ex 16:31 - Like in taste to oil
- Nu 11:8 - Like hoar frost
- Ex 16:14
Fell after the evening dew - Nu 11:9
None fell on the Sabbath day - Ex 16:26,27
Gathered every morning - Ex 16:21
An omer of, gathered for each person - Ex 16:16
Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath - Ex 16:5,22-26
He that gathered much or little had sufficient and nothing over - Ex 16:18
Melted away by the sun - Ex 16:21
GIVEN
- When Israel murmured for bread
- Ex 16:2,3 - In answer to prayer
- Ps 105:40 - Through Moses
- Joh 6:31,32 - To exhibit God's glory
- Ex 16:7 - As a sign of Moses's divine mission
- Joh 6:30,31 - For forty years
- Ne 9:21 - As a test of obedience
- Ex 16:4 - To teach that man does not live by bread only
- De 8:3; Mt 4:4 - To humble and prove Israel
- De 8:16
Kept longer than a day (except on the Sabbath) became corrupt - Ex 16:19,20
THE ISRAELITES
- At first covetous of
- Ex 16:17 - Ground, made into cakes and baked in pans
- Nu 11:8 - Counted inferior to food of Egypt
- Nu 11:4-6 - Loathed
- Nu 21:5 - Punished for despising
- Nu 11:10-20 - Punished for loathing
- Nu 21:6
Ceased when Israel entered Canaan - Ex 16:35; Jos 5:12
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Christ
- Joh 6:32-35 - Blessedness given to saints
- Re 2:17
A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial - Ex 16:32-34; Heb 9:4
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