'Manna' in the Bible
The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.
Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come."
Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!"
(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth.
fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.
You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.
He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.
Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'