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Summary
Exodus 16:12-35

Numbers 11:6-9 11:6. Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.

11:7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the color of bdellium.

Bdellium. . .Bdellium, according to Pliny, 1.21, c. 9. was of the color of a man's nail, white and bright.

11:8. The people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof of the taste of bread tempered with oil.

11:9. When the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.

Joshua 5:12

5:12. The manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Canaan.

Psalms 104:40 (105:40)

104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and He filled them with the bread of Heaven.

John 6:31

6:31. “Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.”

 Hebrews 9:4

9:4. Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament.

Title: English: The Gathering of the Manna Date: Ca. 1460-1470 Artist: Master of the Gathering of the Manna Medium: English: oil on panel Dimensions: 66.6 x 50.7 cm Current location:Français : Musée de la Chartreuse English: Douai Notes:Probably formed part of a larger altarpiece. The master was named after this painting Source/Photographer:, p. 215. This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.