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Old Testament Reading - Manna from Heaven

²There, too, the people spoke bitterly against Moses and Aaron.

³“Oh, that we were back in Egypt,” they moaned, “and that the Lord had killed us there! For there we had plenty to eat. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to kill us with starvation.”

⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for them. Everyone can go out each day and gather as much food as he needs. And I will test them in this, to see whether they will follow my instructions or not.

^7-9In the morning you will see more of his glory; for he has heard your complaints against him (for you aren’t really complaining against us — who are we? ). The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning. Come now before Jehovah and hear his reply to your complaints.”

¹⁰So Aaron called them together and suddenly, out toward the wilderness, from within the guiding cloud, there appeared the awesome glory of Jehovah.

^11-12And Jehovah said to Moses, “I have heard their complaints. Tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat and in the morning you will be stuffed with bread, and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.’”

¹³That evening vast numbers of quail arrived and covered the camp, and in the morning the desert all around the camp was wet with dew; ¹⁴and when the dew disappeared later in the morning it left thin white flakes that covered the ground like frost. ¹⁵When the people of Israel saw it they asked each other, “What is it?”

And Moses told them, “It is the food Jehovah has given you.