Exodus 16
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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

would

Numbers 20:3-6 And the people strived with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that …

Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would God it were even! and at even …

Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, why have you at all brought this …

2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the …

Lamentations 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain …

Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that …

1 Corinthians 4:8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without …

2 Corinthians 11:1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed …

we had

Numbers 11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if …

Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against …

Job 3:1,10,20 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day…

Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my …

Jonah 4:8,9 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a …

flesh

Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …

Numbers 11:4,5 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the …

to kill

Exodus 5:21 And they said to them, The LORD look on you, and judge; because you …

Exodus 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured …

Numbers 16:13,41 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that …

hunger

Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with …

Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the …

Lamentations 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain …

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

the quails. The Hebrew selav, is without doubt the quail; a large kind of quail. A bird of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petraea and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish.

Numbers 11:31-33 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from …

Psalm 78:27,28 He rained flesh also on them as dust, and feathered fowls like as …

Psalm 105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with …

the dew

Numbers 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

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And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

What the substance called manna was, is utterly unknown, but from the circumstances in the text, it is evident that it was not a natural production, but was miraculously sent by Jehovah. These the learned Abarbinel, a most judicious Jewish interpreter, has thus enumerated; The natural manna was never found in the desert where this fell;--where the common manna does fall, it is only in the spring time, in March and April, whereas this fell throughout all the months in the year; the ordinary manna does not melt in the sun, as this did;--it does not stink and breed worms, as this did, when kept till the morning;--it cannot be ground or beaten in a mortar, so as to make cakes, as this was;--the common manna is medicinal and purgative, and cannot be used for food and nutriment, as this was;--this fell in a double proportion on the sixth day, and not on the sabbath, as it certainly would have done had it fallen naturally;--it followed them in all their journeys, where ever they pitched their tents;--and it ceased at the very time of the year when the other falls, namely, in March, when the Israelites were come to Gilgal. Whatever this substance was, it does not appear to have been common to the wilderness. From

Deuteronomy 8:3,16 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with …

Exodus 16:5,16 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare …

Leviticus 25:12,22 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the …

And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

called the name.

Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, …

In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia teranjabin. and it was

Numbers 11:6,7 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this …

Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among …

And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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