Quotes about Manna
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- Exodus 16:4
Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
- Exodus 16:5
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exodus 16:11
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
- Exodus 16:14
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:15
Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
- Exodus 16:21
On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.
- Exodus 16:22
For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”
- Exodus 16:26
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
- Exodus 16:31
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 16:32
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
- Exodus 16:33
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- Exodus 16:35