Manna
21 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
44 sections
- A Golden Pot of, Laid up in the Holiest for a Memorial
- An Omer of, Gathered for Each Person
- Blessedness Given to Saints
- Called: Angel's Food
- Called: Bread from Heaven
- Called: Bread of Heaven
- Called: Corn of Heaven
- Called: God's Manna
- Called: Spiritual Meat
- Ceased when Israel Entered Canaan
- Christ
- Fell After the Evening Dew
- Figurative
- Gathered Every Morning
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Given for Forty Years
- Given in Answer to Prayer
- Given: As a Sign of Moses's Divine Mission
- Given: As a Test of Obedience
- Given: Through Moses
- Given: To Exhibit God's Glory
- Given: To Humble and Prove Israel
- Given: To Teach That Man Does not Live by Bread Only
- Given: when Israel Murmured for Bread
- He That Gathered Much or Little had Sufficient and Nothing
- Kept Longer than a Day (Except on the Sabbath) Became Corrupt
- Like Coriander Seed
- Like Hoar Frost
- Like in Colour to Bdellium
- Like in Taste to Oil
- Like in Taste to Wafers Made with Honey
- Melted Away by the Sun
- Miraculously Given to Israel for Food in the Wilderness
- None Fell on the Sabbath Day
- Preserved in the Ark of the Testimony
- Previously Unknown
- The Israelites: At First Covetous of
- The Israelites: Counted Inferior to Food of Egypt
- The Israelites: Ground, Made Into Cakes and Baked in Pans
- The Israelites: Loathed
- The Israelites: Punished for Despising
- The Israelites: Punished for Loathing
- Two Portions of, Gathered the Sixth Day on Account of The
- White
A Golden Pot of, Laid up in the Holiest for a Memorial
- Exodus 16:32–34 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” …
- Hebrews 9:4 containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
An Omer of, Gathered for Each Person
- Exodus 16:16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
Blessedness Given to Saints
- Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
Called: Angel's Food
- Psalm 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
Called: Bread from Heaven
- Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Called: Bread of Heaven
- Psalm 105:40 They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Called: Corn of Heaven
- Psalm 78:24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Called: God's Manna
- Nehemiah 9:20 You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
Called: Spiritual Meat
- 1 Corinthians 10:3 They all ate the same spiritual food
Ceased when Israel Entered Canaan
- Exodus 16:35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
- Joshua 5:12 And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
Christ
- John 6:32–35 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. …
Fell After the Evening Dew
- Numbers 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
Figurative
- John 6:48–51 I am the bread of life. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:3 They all ate the same spiritual food
- Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
Gathered Every Morning
- Exodus 16:21 Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Exodus 16:4–35 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions. …
- Numbers 11:6–10 But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!” …
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Joshua 5:12 And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- Nehemiah 9:20 You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- Psalm 78:24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
- John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- John 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
- John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
Given for Forty Years
- Nehemiah 9:21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Given in Answer to Prayer
- Psalm 105:40 They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Given: As a Sign of Moses's Divine Mission
- John 6:30–31 So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do? …
Given: As a Test of Obedience
- Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Given: Through Moses
- John 6:31–32 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” …
Given: To Exhibit God's Glory
- Exodus 16:7 and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?”
Given: To Humble and Prove Israel
- Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Given: To Teach That Man Does not Live by Bread Only
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Matthew 4:4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Given: when Israel Murmured for Bread
- Exodus 16:2–3 And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. …
He That Gathered Much or Little had Sufficient and Nothing
- Exodus 16:18 When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
Kept Longer than a Day (Except on the Sabbath) Became Corrupt
- Exodus 16:19–20 Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” …
Like Coriander Seed
- Exodus 16:31 Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
- Numbers 11:7 Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
Like Hoar Frost
- Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
Like in Colour to Bdellium
- Numbers 11:7 Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
Like in Taste to Oil
- Numbers 11:8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
Like in Taste to Wafers Made with Honey
- Exodus 16:31 Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Melted Away by the Sun
- Exodus 16:21 Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
Miraculously Given to Israel for Food in the Wilderness
- Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- Exodus 16:15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Nehemiah 9:15 In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.
None Fell on the Sabbath Day
- Exodus 16:26–27 For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.” …
Preserved in the Ark of the Testimony
- Exodus 16:33 So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
- Hebrews 9:4 containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
Previously Unknown
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
The Israelites: At First Covetous of
- Exodus 16:17 So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
The Israelites: Counted Inferior to Food of Egypt
- Numbers 11:4–6 Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat? …
The Israelites: Ground, Made Into Cakes and Baked in Pans
- Numbers 11:8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
The Israelites: Loathed
- Numbers 21:5 and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
The Israelites: Punished for Despising
- Numbers 11:10–20 Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased. …
The Israelites: Punished for Loathing
- Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Two Portions of, Gathered the Sixth Day on Account of The
- Exodus 16:5 Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
- Exodus 16:22–26 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food — two omers per person — and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses. …
White
- Exodus 16:31 Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Related topics
The Diet of the Jews in the Wilderness
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.