The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

(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.)

He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

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.

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.”

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.

When the Israelites saw it, they 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 you for food.

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.