Manna

thumb|Gathering of the manna (15-th century) Manna, sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is described in the Bible and the Quran as an edible substance that God bestowed upon the Israelites while they were wandering the desert during the 40-year period that followed the Exodus and preceded the conquest of Canaan. Quotes about In contrast, you nourished your people with the food of angels, and with no labor on their part, you supplied them with bread from heaven that was ready to eat, filled with every delight and pleasing to every taste. The sustenance you offered manifested your kindly mercy to your children, for the bread that conformed to the desire of those who ate it was transformed to appeal to each one’s preference. Book of Wisdom 16:20-21 NCB. Yet he issued a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens. He rained down manna for them to eat, giving them the grain of heaven. Mere mortals ate the bread of angels; he sent them an abundance of provisions. Asaph, Psalms 78:23-25 NCB. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and yet they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat it and not die. Jesus, Gospel of John 6:49-50 NCB. The children of Israel called it manna. It was like coriander seed and was white. It tasted like wafers made from honey. Moses said, “This is what the Lord has ordered: ‘Fill an omer and conserve it for your descendants so that they can see the bread that I gave you to eat in the desert, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” Exodus 16:31-32 NCB. Manna had the shape of coriander seed and it looked like resin. The people would go around gathering it, and then they would grind it in a mill or beat it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. It tasted something like fresh olive oil. The manna would come down when the dew settled upon the camp at night. Numbers 11:7-9 NKJV. The layer of dew evaporated, and on the surface of the desert there was something small and flaky, as small as hoarfrost on the ground. The children of Israel saw it and said to one another, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given us as food. “This is what the Lord commands: ‘Collect as much as each person can eat, an omer per person. Let every person take as much as needed for the people living with him, for as many as there are in his tent.’ ” This is what the children of Israel did. Some collected quite a bit and others much less. Exodus 16:14-17 NCB. Remember how the Lord, your God, guided your path through the wilderness for these forty years, abasing you and testing you so that he might know what was in your heart, whether or not you would observe his commandments. He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord. Throughout these forty years your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell. Thus you could understand that the Lord, your God, was disciplining you, just like a father disciplines his son. Deuteronomy 8:2-5 NCB. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” Book of Revelation 2:17 NKJV. External links Category:Food and drink Category:Bible