Exodus 16:33 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 16:33

31 And the house of Israel called its name¹ Manna. And ^ait was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

32 Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

33 And Moses said to Aaron, ^a“Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.”

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up ^abefore the Testimony, to be kept.

35 And the children of Israel ^aate manna ^bforty years, ^cuntil they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36 Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

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Exodus 16:33-35

God says, “I want you to save some of this so that further generations down the line will know what I did; that I fed an entire nation, on foot in the wilderness [however many millions it was], for forty years, never missing a day except the Sabbath” (which He had told them to gather twice the amount on Friday). So He had, week after week, after all those years, provided the same food, the same amount, for them to eat, to subsist.

So God provided this stuff—this manna, this ‘What is it?’, this “We don’t know what this is, but it’s good and it tastes like coriander and honey.” And they learned to make it all kinds of different ways, and it sustained them throughout forty years.

Excerpted from Sincerity and Truth (Part One)

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