Manna in the Wilderness
Exodus 15-16
(Selected Verses)
Then
Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness
of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no
water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of
Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.[b] 24 And
the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And
he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,[c] and he threw it
into the water, and the water became sweet.
2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel
grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people
of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in
the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for
you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.”
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about
to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a
day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law
or not. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring
in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”
10 And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole
congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and
behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11 And the Lord
said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the people of
Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you
shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”
13 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp,
and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had
gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine
as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they
said to one another, “What is it?”[a] For they did not know what it
was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to
eat."
31 Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It
was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with
honey.35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to
a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land
of Canaan.
Footnotes:
Exodus 15:23 Marah means bitterness
Exodus 15:25 Or tree
Exodus 15:25 Hebrew he
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version.
ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing
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