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Manna

 

Manna

Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness - Ex 16:4,15; Ne 9:15

CALLED

• God's manna
- Ne 9:20
• Bread of heaven
- Ps 105:40
• Bread from heaven
- Ex 16:4; Joh 6:31
• Corn of heaven
- Ps 78:24
• Angel's food
- Ps 78:25
• Spiritual meat
- 1Co 10:3

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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