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度百科网页新闻贴吧知道网盘图片视频地图文库资讯采购百科百度首页登录注册进入词条全站搜索帮助首页秒懂百科特色百科知识专题加入百科百科团队权威合作下载百科APP个人中心收藏查看我的收藏0有用+10吗哪播报讨论上传视频《圣经》中的一种天降食物吗哪（希伯来语：מן‎；英语：Manna）是《圣经》中的一种天降食物。在古代以色列人出埃及时，在40年的旷野生活中，上帝赐给他们的神奇食物。中文名吗哪外文名Manna含义一种天降食物记载《圣经》目录1圣经记载2形状及味道圣经记载播报编辑神奇食物吗哪根据《出埃及记》第16章记载，吗哪出现于以色列人出埃及后第二个月的15日，当时摩西领以色列人到达以琳和西乃之间的汛的旷野没有东西吃，于是以色列人向摩西抱怨快要饿死。耶和华于是应许摩西将要赐食物予以色列人。当天晚上，耶和华开始降吗哪给他们吃，从那一天开始，以色列民一连吃了40年，从不间断。通常会一连降六天，只是在安息日停降一日，让百姓遵守安息日，因此第六天所降的，会是双倍分量。头五天所降的，必须即日吃完，否则留到早上，便会生虫变臭；第六天所降的，则可留至第二天也不变坏。直到约书亚带领百姓过了约旦河，到达迦南地，并且吃了迦南地的出产之后，才停止降下这是上帝所降之物，以色列人把这东西叫“吗哪”。（希伯来文，意为“这是什么？”）他们吃“吗哪”达四十年，直到进入迦南（今巴勒斯坦）境内。上帝见这里食物丰富，就不再降下“吗哪”。于是，教会中现在便惯用"吗哪"来比喻"精神食粮"，更贴切的说，应该是"灵魂的粮食"，那就是每天都要读《圣经》、祷告，作为我们一天力量的来源。而用"吃吗哪"这样的形容，可以更具体地让基督徒自省是否"每天"来支取信仰的真实力量，也提醒基督徒，上帝依然每天关心、照料我们，一如数千年前按时降下吗哪供应他的百姓一样。形状及味道播报编辑吗哪夜间随着露水降在营中，是有如白霜的小圆物。形状彷佛芫荽子，又好像珍珠，是白色的。以色列人把吗哪收起来，或用磨推，或用臼捣，煮在锅中，又做成饼，滋味好像新油。新手上路成长任务编辑入门编辑规则本人编辑我有疑问内容质疑在线客服官方贴吧意见反馈投诉建议举报不良信息未通过词条申诉投诉侵权信息封禁查询与解封©2024 Baidu 使用百度前必读 | 百科协议 | 隐私政策 | 百度百科合作平台 | 京ICP证030173号京公网安备110000020000

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(in the Bible) a food that dropped from heaven and prevented Moses and his people from dying of hunger in the desert

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To him this was manna from heaven.

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They are commonly called camelthorns or manna trees.

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Give unto us this day the daily manna without which he who labors most to move ahead through this harsh wilderness falls back.

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Oaks and the accompanying silver leafed lime, manna ash, yoke elm, and field maple occupy the hilly area in the centre of the park.

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I am glad that he is looking for something to come down to him like some kind of manna from heaven.

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Here it need not, since we could eliminate inequality by praying for manna.

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The names of both the sugar mannose and its hydrogenated sugar alcohol, mannitol are derived from manna.

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Owein receives some of the manna-like heavenly food which the inhabitants of both the celestial and earthly paradises enjoy.

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When the Israelites fled Egypt, after over four hundred years of slavery, they spent forty years wandering in the wilderness before they entered the Promised Land. During this time, God provided substance for them to eat every day in the form of quail (meat) and manna (Exodus 16).Manna, basically a word that means “what is it?” is a bread-like substance that fell from heaven (Psalm 78:24), and that tasted like honey.The Israelites would go and collect a daily portion of manna each day, ensuring to get a double portion before the Sabbath (so they didn’t work for their food on the Sabbath). If they grabbed too much or too little, they suffered the consequences (Exodus 16:20). An exercise in trusting God’s provisions, the Israelites ate this bread of heaven throughout their several-decade stay in the wilderness.Where Is Manna Mentioned in the Bible?We see manna first introduced in Exodus 16. Right before this, the Israelites complained to Moses, saying he brought them out to the desert to die, with no food substance.While they grumble and say their days in slavery in Egypt were better, God provides food and doesn’t let them go hungry.Numbers 11:8 describes what the Israelites did with this bread from heaven. They made it into cakes, boiled it, and ground it into flour. Deuteronomy 8:3, which Jesus later quotes when tempted by Satan, mentions these provisions from God – although it also mentions that man does not live by bread alone. Even if we fulfill our physical needs, we have spiritual needs as well. John 6:38 makes mention of manna as well. It says that even though manna filled the physical needs of the Israelites, it didn’t prevent death. On the other hand, the bread of life (Jesus) prevents spiritual death. Psalm 78:23-25 calls manna “the bread of angels,” since this manna appeared to fall from the sky like snow. Another psalm, Psalm 105:40, talks about how God cared for the needs of the Israelites in the wilderness.Apart from Jesus quoting the Deuteronomy passage and the John passage above mentioning manna, we don’t see the term pop up in the New Testament. However, Jesus does make an emphasis of bread throughout his ministry.He primarily refers to himself as the bread of life (John 6:35) and explains that we need the true bread from heaven for our spiritual survival.Jesus also breaks bread during the last supper to show his body would be broken for us (1 Corinthians 11:24). What Is Manna Made Of? And Do We Have Anything Similar? Because of its name “what is it?” we don’t exactly know the contents of manna. We do know it was sweet and looked like small white coriander seeds. Some have conjectured it was made from a sweet beetle cocoon that grows on green leaves in desert plants. However, we do have to keep in mind that not all scientific explanations fully fit the narratives found in the Old and New Testaments. For instance, scientists try to form natural explanations for the Ten Plagues in Egypt, which appear to be clearly supernatural phenomena.Also, in this narrative, God stops the manna in Joshua 5:12 as soon as they eat the food in the Promised Land. Either all those poor beetles died out in one day, or we need an alternate explanation. In either case, we do technically have something similar (listed in the article above), but if this is truly manna, we may never know. Where Did the Manna Come From?In the Bible, we have two types of manna, and both come from God and heaven alone. We’ll discuss both in this section.We have the physical manna: the edible manna the Israelites ate in the desert. As mentioned in this article, we don’t know the physical or chemical composition of manna. We can hazard scientific explanations, but sometimes the way Old Testament authors used images may be different than how we would describe items from heaven.For instance, if we observe the passage from Ezekiel describing angels, we may have no way to wrap our mind around all those eyes and wheels (Ezekiel 1:16).Then we have the second type of manna: the bread of life, Jesus.Jesus comes to us in the wilderness (the space between here and heaven) and provides for us the true substance we need. We need him, the bread of life, to spiritually survive.We can try to describe Jesus, but Jesus is far more complex than a human explanation. Just like manna, we come up short, and end up with, “What is it?”Both types of manna come from heaven. God provides the manna we need.Why Did God Send Manna to the Israelites? God sent manna for a few reasons during the Israelites’ time in the desert.First, and most practically, he wanted to meet a physical need. They didn’t have many options for food in the wilderness, and they’d begun to think that God had led them into a death trap. God provides food for them to show he meets our needs, even when situations seem most dire.Secondly, God wants the Israelites to practice trust and obedience.Some Israelites take too much manna on some days, and it rots in their tents, full of maggots. Other Israelites don’t obey God’s command to collect double portions before the Sabbath, and they end up hungry on the Sabbath because manna didn’t fall that day.God provided manna as a way to rely on him fully. If he provided manna, and the Israelites had a fresh grain supply nearby, they wouldn’t really care about God’s provisions. But they had few options in the wilderness, so they had to exercise trust that God would provide the next day, the same way he had the day before.Thirdly, God wanted to foreshadow the most important manna from heaven: Jesus.Although he provided for the physical needs of the Israelites, he knew they, along with all of mankind, needed a permanent, not temporary, solution to their need for spiritual bread. God provides by way of Jesus’ ministry on earth, and through his death and resurrection.Because of the bread of life, we no longer hunger. Because of the bread of life, we have a chance to live. What is Manna for Christians Today?As mentioned above, we need spiritual bread. Although God does provide for our physical needs, we need far more than physical bread alone. We need the bread of life to survive.Also, God may sometimes place us in a wilderness setting. Maybe we’ve relied too much on our own abilities or our own “bread” in a metaphorical sense, that we’ve forgotten from whom all good gifts come.During such times, we need to exercise trust and obedience. Maybe God has placed us in a financially unstable situation, and we’ll still trust to tithe (knowing he’ll provide), for instance.No matter what the case, we are always in a wilderness, until we reach heaven. Whether we are in dire need of bread or have provisions, we haven’t reached the Promised Land yet.During this in-between, here-not-yet period, we have to trust in the Lord and obey him. We need to trust in the bread of life, the true manna, for our physical and spiritual well-being. Photo credit: ©Getty Images Plus/Oxana MedvedevaHope Bolinger is an acquisitions editor at End Game Press, book editor for hire, and the author of almost 30 books. More than 1500 of her works have been featured in various publications. Check out her books at hopebolinger.com for clean books in most genres, great for adults and kids. Check out her editing profile at Reedsy.com to find out about hiring her for your next book project.

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Although desiring peaceful interaction and offering immortality and boundless manna, they are prepared for hostile action.

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They were not to save any manna from one day to the next.

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I feel sure that these things do not fall like manna.

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They would not just be handling funds that had been dropped like manna from on high, which is what the regional arts associations are more concerned with.

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They spend much time gleaning lerps from foliage, invertebrates from behind decorticating bark, and making repeated visits to places where manna is weeping from damaged eucalypt and melaleuca branches.

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Certainly, it has been useful, but it has not proved to be the manna from heaven that many areas think it is.

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One night, after leaving a nightclub, like manna from heaven, a pair of black suede shoes falls at his feet.

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Manna was the supernatural food God gave to the Israelites during their 40-year wandering in the desert. The word manna means "What is it?" in Hebrew. Manna is also known in the Bible as the "bread of heaven," "corn of heaven," "angel's food," and "spiritual meat."

What Is Manna? Bible Descriptions

Exodus 16:14 - "When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground." Exodus 16:31 - "The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers." Numbers 11:7 - "The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin."

History and Origin of Manna

Not long after the Jewish people had escaped Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, they ran out of the food they had brought with them. They began to grumble, recalling the tasty meals they had enjoyed when they were slaves.

God told Moses he would rain down bread from heaven for the people. That evening quail came and covered the camp. The people killed the birds and ate their meat. The next morning, when the dew evaporated, a white substance covered the ground. The Bible describes manna as a fine, flaky substance, white like coriander seed, and tasting like wafers made with honey.

Moses instructed the people to gather an omer, or about two quarts' worth, for each person each day. When some of the people tried to save extra, it became wormy and spoiled.

Manna appeared for six days in a row. On Fridays, the Hebrews were to gather a double portion, because it did not appear on the next day, the Sabbath. And yet, the portion they saved for the Sabbath did not spoil.

After the people gathered the manna, they made it into flour by grinding it with hand mills or crushing it with mortars. Then they boiled the manna in pots and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil. (Numbers 11:8)

Skeptics have tried to explain manna as a natural substance, such as a resin left behind by insects or a product of the tamarisk tree. However, the tamarisk substance appears only in June and July and does not spoil overnight.

God told Moses to save a jar of manna so future generations could see how the Lord provided for his people in the desert. Aaron filled a jar with an omer of manna and put it in the Ark of the Covenant, in front of the tablets of the Ten Commandments.

Exodus says the Jews ate manna every day for 40 years. Miraculously, when Joshua and the people came to the border of Canaan and ate the food of the Promised Land, the heavenly manna stopped the next day and was never seen again.

Bread in the Bible

In one form or another, bread is a recurring symbol of life in the Bible because it was the staple food of ancient times. Ground manna could be baked into bread; it was also called the bread of heaven.

More than 1,000 years later, Jesus Christ repeated the miracle of manna in the Feeding of the 5,000. The crowd following him was in the "wilderness" and he multiplied a few loaves of bread until everyone had eaten their fill.

Some scholars believe that Jesus' phrase, "Give us this day our daily bread" in the Lord's Prayer, is a reference to manna, meaning that we are to trust God to supply our physical needs one day at a time, as the Jews did in the desert.

Christ frequently referred to himself as bread: "the true Bread from heaven" (John 6:32), "the Bread of God" (John 6:33), "the Bread of life" (John 6:35, 48), and John 6:51:

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." (NIV)

Today, most Christian churches celebrate a communion service or Lord's Supper, in which the participants eat some form of bread, as Jesus commanded his followers to do at the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26).

The final mention of manna occurs in Revelation 2:17, "To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna..." One interpretation of this verse is that Christ supplies spiritual nourishment (hidden manna) as we wander through the wilderness of this world.

References to Manna in the Bible

Exodus 16:31-35; Numbers 11:6-9; Deuteronomy 8:3, 16; Joshua 5:12; Nehemiah 9:20; Psalm 78:24; John 6:31, 49, 58; Hebrews 9:4; Revelation 2:17.

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The miraculously supplied food on which the Israelites subsisted in the wilderness. Its name is said to have originated in the question ("What is it?" Ex. xvi. 15, R. V.; comp. Rashi ad loc.), asked by the Israelites when they first saw it. According to George Ebers ("Durch Gosen zum Sinai," p. 236), the name comes from the Egyptian "mennu" (= "food"). The manna is also designated "bread" (Ex. xvi. 4); it is called "the corn of heaven" and "the bread of the mighty" in Ps. lxxviii. 24-25, R. V., and, in a depreciative sense, "the light bread" in Num. xxi. 5. The manna descended in the night in the form of coriander-seed of the color of bdellium (Num. xi. 7), so that in the morning the ground looked as if it were covered with hoar frost. The grains were ground or pounded into flour, and then the flour was prepared and baked in the form of cakes, the taste of which was like that of "wafers made with honey" or "as the taste of fresh oil" (Ex. xvi. 31; Num. xi. 8).The gathering of the manna was connected with several miracles: it was collected before sunrise, for, in spite of its hard substance, it melted in the sun. The quantity collected made exactly one omer for every person, whether one collected much or little. On Friday morning the portions were double, for the manna could not be found on Sabbath. The manna was eaten the day it was gathered; if it were left until the following morning it corrupted and bred worms, though the manna gathered on Friday and kept for the Sabbath remained fresh. It continuedto descend during the forty years the Israelites were in the wilderness, but when they arrived at Gilgal, on the 14th of Nisan, and began to eat the grain grown there, the manna ceased to fall. In order to perpetuate the memory of this providence, Aaron was told to put an omer of manna in a vessel and lay it "before the testimony" (Ex. xvi. 17-35; Josh. v. 10-12). Num. xxi. 5 makes it appear that manna was the only food of the Israelites while they were in the wilderness, although references to provisions of fine flour, oil, and meat are met with elsewhere. It may be either that the manna constituted their main but not only food-supply during the whole forty years, or that it became their exclusive food after the provisions they took with them from Egypt were exhausted.Certain modern scholars attempt to identify the manna of Exodus with the exudation of the tamarisk-trees (named by Ehrenberg the "Tammarix mannifera") of the Sinaitic peninsula. The Arabs call it "mann al-sa-ma" (= "heavenly manna"), and collect it and sell it to pilgrims. It has been identified also with the exudations of other trees found in those regions. A more recent view identifies the Biblical manna with lichen and allied species of plants found in Arabia and other parts of western Asia. The reports of modern travelers, however, are contradictory in regard to "manna."E. C. M. Sel.—In Rabbinical Literature:

Manna was one of the ten things created on the first Friday of Creation, in the twilight (Abot v. 9; comp. Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Ex. xvi. 4, 15). According to Zabdi b. Levi, the manna which fell near the camp of the Israelites in the wilderness covered an area two thousand cubits square; it remained on the ground until four hours after sunrise, when it melted. It fell to a depth of sixty cubits, or, according to Isi b. Akiba (Midr. Teh. to Ps. xxiii.), of fifty cubits, and the quantity which fell every day would have sufficed to nourish the people for two thousand years. The question why was it necessary that the manna should fall every day is answered by the Rabbis in different ways: the Israelites could not be encumbered with its burden; they needed warm food every day, and the manna was warm when it fell; they needed that their hearts should be turned to God for their daily bread. It was so conspicuous that all the kings of the East and West could see it from their palaces (Yoma 76a; Tan., Beshallaḥ, 21).In order that the manna might remain clean, a north wind first swept the ground, and then rains washed it. Then, after the ground had been covered with a layer of dew, the manna fell upon it, and was itself then covered with dew (Mek., Beshallaḥ, Wayassa', 3; comp. Sifre, Num. 89). It so fell that the righteous had no trouble in gathering it, finding it at the doors of their tents; those of less firm belief had to go farther for it; the wicked had to go far from the camp to gather it (Yoma 75a). A very different statement, but of the same nature, is given in Tan., Beshallaḥ, 22: The diligent went out into the field to gather the manna; the less diligent went just outside their tents; but the indolent lay in their sleeping-places while the manna fell into their outstretched hands. Created only for the children of Israel, the heathen could not secure the smallest quantity of it, for when one stretched out his hand to pick it up, it slipped from his grasp (Sifre, Deut. 313; Midr. Abkir, in Yalḳ., Ex. 258); according to another opinion, it tasted bitter to the heathen (Tan., l.c.).Israelites Gathering Manna in the Desert.(From the Sarajevo Haggadah of the fourteenth century.)The melting of the manna formed streams which furnished drink to many deer and other animals, and when those animals were afterward killed by heathen, the latter recognized in the meat the taste of the manna (Tan., l.c.; comp. Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Ex. xvi. 21). It was only in this way that the heathen could know the true taste of the manna, for the water itself was bitter to them (Tan., l.c.). With the manna precious stones fell every morning (Yoma l.c.). The manna was adapted to the taste of each individual; to the adult it tasted like the food of the adult, while to the sucking child it tasted like the milk of its mother's breasts. By wishing, one could taste in the manna anything desired, whether fowl or fruit; thus the statement that the people ground it, or pounded it, and then baked it (Num. xi. 8), is only figurative, for if one so wished it tasted like food made of flour ground or pounded, baked or cooked. According to a different interpretation, the wicked were compelled to grind it and prepare it until it was fit for food, while for the righteous it was ground by angels before it fell from heaven.Characteristics.

The manna exhaled a fragrant odor, and during the forty years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness it served the women as perfume. Being a heavenly food, the manna contained nutritious matter only, without any waste products, so that during the whole time the Israelites lived upon it the grossest office of the body remained unexercised. The Israelites, nevertheless, complained of it (comp. Num. xi. 6): "Shall a human being not discharge of what he eats? our bowels will surely be swollen" (Yoma l.c.; Sifre, Num. 87-89; Tan., l.c.). A miracle attended the collecting of the manna, in that the number of omers gathered by each family was found to correspond to the number of its members. This rendered the manna useful in solving most difficult problems. For instance, when two people came before Moses, one accusing the other of having stolen his slave and the other claiming to have bought the slave, Moses deferred his decision to the following morning, when the number of omers of manna in their respective houses showed to whom the slave belonged. In this way many otherwise inextricable complications could be unraveled (Yoma 75a).The Rabbis disagreed as to the period of time for which the pot of manna was placed by Aaron "before the testimony." It was placed there only for the following generation; it was placed there for all future generations; it was to be kept there until the coming of the Messiah. It is one of the three things which will be restored by Elijah. Jeremiah, when remonstrating with the children of Israel for their neglect of the Torah, showed them the pot of manna: "See how God nourishes those that occupy themselves with the study of the Law." There is also a disagreement between the Rabbis with regard to the length of time after Moses' death in which the Israelites ate the manna—whether for forty days, seventy days, or for the fourteen years during which the land of Canaan was conquered and divided among the tribes. According to R. Joshua, the manna ceased to descend immediately after Moses' death, and the Israelites were compelled to eat what they had gathered previously (Mek., l.c.). The manna is reserved as the future food of the righteous, for which purpose it is ground in a mill situated in Sheḥaḳim, the third heaven (Ḥag. 12b; Tan., l.c.).E. C. M. Sel.

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The unknown fifth question of the Passover seder

Lisa Bramen

April 8, 2009

Jacqueline Moen

Today at sundown is the beginning of Passover, when Jews celebrate their ancestors' freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. The observance usually involves reading and eating in about equal measure.

During my family's Passover seders, when the reading parts were being doled out, we all dreaded being assigned the "it would have been sufficient"s. That's the highly repetitive part (at least in the translation in the Maxwell House Haggadah we used) where a litany is recited of all the ways God provided for the Israelites after liberating them from the Pharaoh's rule: If he had supplied us with the necessaries in the wilderness forty years, and had not fed us with manna, it would have been sufficient. If he had fed us with manna, and not given us the Sabbath, it would have been sufficient. And so on.

Among all the other strange language used in the Haggadah, it never occurred to me to wonder back then, what the heck was manna, anyway? Was this food that sustained the Israelites in the desert for four decades some kind of miracle substance that rained down like—oh yeah, like manna from Heaven. Obviously, that is the literal explanation from the Bible, but scientists have other theories.

One, put forth nearly a century ago, was that the stuff that miraculously appeared each morning for the Israelites to harvest was actually the sweet-tasting secretion of a kind of plant lice that infected certain shrubs in the Sinai Desert. Kind of ruins the appetite for matzo ball soup, eh?

According to a 1927 Time magazine article, Dr. Fritz Bodenheimer, of Hebrew University's Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station, and Oskar Theodor, of the university's microbiological institute, visited the Sinai Desert in summer and observed "the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs."

Bedouins on the Sinai peninsula continue to harvest and eat the manna, as described in the 1981 Torah: A Modern Commentary, published by the Union for Reform Judaism. The book explains, "In June the substance falls to ground in little drops and is gathered up before sunrise for afterward it liquifies again once the sun shines on it. The Arabs preserve the manna in leather gourds and thus save it, like honey, for the future." A chemical analysis of the excretions found they contained a mixture of three basic sugars with pectin.

Another theory, mentioned in the 2006 book Cooking with the Bible (which I'll discuss more in my next post), suggests that manna was a "dried form of algae or drought-desiccated and wind-dispersed lichen." The authors, Anthony F. Chiffolo and Rayner W. Hesse, Jr., also point out that, in the Book of Numbers chapter of the Old Testament, some of the Israelites complained to God about the monotony of eating manna day after day. "What they seemed to have wanted was variety, and they wanted it garnished with spices! Without the garnishes, they felt empty."

It wasn't the most exciting diet, in other words, but it was sufficient.

On a totally unrelated note, other than that it's about Passover, check out this funny Facebook parody, which includes wall-to-wall postings between Pharaoh and God.

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