Manna
The miraculous bread from heaven that God provided daily for Israel during their forty years of wilderness wandering. Exodus 16:14-15 describes it as 'thin flakes like frost on the ground,' and the people asked 'What is it?' (man hu, giving manna its name). God provided enough for each day, teaching daily dependence (16:16-20). Double portions came before the Sabbath (16:22-26). Deuteronomy 8:3 explained its purpose: to teach that 'man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.' Jesus identified himself as the true bread from heaven: 'Whoever eats this bread will live forever' (John 6:58). A jar of manna was kept in the Ark of the Covenant (Hebrews 9:4).
Verses about Manna
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Exodus 16:15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the b…
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Exodus 16:31
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
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Exodus 16:33
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
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Exodus 16:35
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of th…
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Numbers 11:6
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
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Numbers 11:7
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
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Numbers 11:9
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make t…
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Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at th…
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Joshua 5:12
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did …
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Nehemiah 9:20
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
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Psalms 78:24
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
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John 6:31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
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John 6:58
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
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Hebrews 9:4
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod t…
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Revelation 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will gi…