Manna

"manna"
occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the NLT.

 

 

 

Exodus 16:
31. The Israelites called the food manna.[fn] It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers.

32. Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”

33. Moses said to Aaron, “Get a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then put it in a sacred place before the LORD to preserve it for all future generations.”

35. So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36. The container used to measure the manna was an omer, which was one-tenth of an ephah; it held about two quarts.[fn]

 

Numbers 11:

6. But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”

 

7. The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin.

 

9. The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.

 

Numbers 21:

 

5. and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

 

Deuteronomy 8:

3. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

 

16. He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

 

Joshua 5:

12. No manna appeared on the day they first ate from the crops of the land, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan.

 

Nehemiah 9:

20. You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst.

 

Psalms 78:

24. He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven.

 

Psalms 105:

40. They asked for meat, and he sent them quail; he satisfied their hunger with manna—bread from heaven.

 

John 6:

31. After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.'[fn]”

49. Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died.

58. I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”

 

Hebrews 9:

4. In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron's staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

 

Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

 

Revelation 8:

3. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

 

Revelation 2:

17. “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. To everyone who is victorious I will give some of the manna that has been hidden away in heaven. And I will give to each one a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no one understands except the one who receives it.

 

Exodus 7:

12. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

 

Numbers 17:

3. And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

10. And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.