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manna
Manna is the bread Yahweh rains from heaven in the desert of Sin. It appears as fine, granular frost when the dew lifts. Israel collects a homer per head each day; leftovers overnight breed maggots, except the double portion kept for the Sabbath. They name it manna: white, like coriander seed, tasting of honey wafers. Aaron stores a homer of it before the Testimony. Israel eats manna for forty years until the frontiers of Canaan.
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First mention
Exodus 16:14
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Scripture references
- Exodus 16:14
When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine and granular, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground.
- Exodus 16:15
As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that ?' not knowing what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:31
The House of Israel named it 'manna'. It was like coriander seed; it was white and its taste was like that of wafers made with honey.
- Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna for forty years, up to the time they reached inhabited country: they ate manna up to the time they reached the frontiers of Canaan.