'Manna' in the Bible
The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Moses told Aaron, “Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved throughout your generations.”
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.
But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
And the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. Since there was no more manna for the Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan that year.
You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them.You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths,and You gave them water for their thirst.
He rained manna for them to eat;He gave them grain from heaven.
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which there was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.