manna

³⁵Now the sons of Israel ate manna for forty years, until they arrived in a habitable land. With this food they were nourished, even until they touched the borders of the land of Canaan.

¹And they set out from Elim. And the entire multitude of the sons of Israel arrived at the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month, after they departed from the land of Egypt. ²And the entire congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. ³And the sons of Israel said to them: “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat around bowls of meat and ate bread until filled. Why have you led us away, into this desert, so that you might kill the entire multitude with famine?” ⁴Then the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Let the people go out and collect what is sufficient for each day, so that I may test them, as to whether or not they will walk in my law. ⁵But on the sixth day, let them prepare what they use for carrying, and let there be double what they were accustomed to collect on a single day.” ⁶And Moses and Aaron said to the sons of Israel: “In the evening, you will know that the Lord has led you away from the land of Egypt.

³He afflicted you with need, and he gave you Manna as your food, which neither you nor your fathers knew, so as to reveal to you that it is not by bread alone that man lives, but by every word that goes forth from the mouth of God.

¹⁷Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. To him who prevails, I will give the hidden manna. And I will give to him a white emblem, and on the emblem, a new name has been written, which no one knows, except the one who receives it.

⁷Now the manna was like coriander seed, but with the color of bdellium.

⁵⁸Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.

³¹And the house of Israel called its name ‘Manna.’ It was like white coriander seed, and its taste was like wheat flour with honey.

⁸And the people wandered about, gathering it, and they crushed it with a millstone, or ground it with a mortar; then they boiled it in a pot, and made biscuits out of it, with a taste like bread made with oil.

²³And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven. ²⁴And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven. ²⁵Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance.

¹⁵When the sons of Israel had seen it, they said one to another: “Manhu?” which means “What is this?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them: “This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

³¹Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

⁴having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament, covered all around and on every part with gold, in which was a golden urn containing manna, and the rod of Aaron which had blossomed, and the tablets of the testament.