Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.” As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
Comment: I don’t know what I would have said to my wife on our 40th Wedding Anniversary if I sat down to breakfast and it was the first time since we were married that I had something different from porridge. There is such a variety available for us – weetbix, cocopops, occasionally bacon and eggs, a full English breakfast. But the phrase ’till they came to a habitable land.‘ is very relevant and they didn’t hang around long enough to grow crops and there was a great shortage of water much of the time. There was meat to have with their manna in the evenings. I fancy that many of the women were able with ingenuity to be able to make alterations to the basic manna to give some variety. But note they were to keep a jar full of the manna and for it to be placed ‘before the LORD as a memorial for their descendants, It was ‘bread that came down from heaven’.
I quote Jesus words in In John’s gospel chapter six v32-35 “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” Manna was their saving diet in the wilderness. Jesus is our saving food in the ‘wilderness of sin through which we are passing.
Prayer: Father thank You for calling me to Your Son, He satisfies my hunger for Life!
As I read it! 