^31 (A)Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ^(B)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

^49 (A)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain ^(A)bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather ^[a]a certain quota every day, that I may ^(B)test them, whether they will ^(C)walk in My law or not. ⁵ And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and ^(D)it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

⁶ Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, ^(E)“At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt. ⁷ And in the morning you shall see ^(F)the glory of the Lord; for He ^(G)hears your complaints against the Lord. But ^(H)what are we, that you complain against us?” ⁸ Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the Lord hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but ^(I)against the Lord.”

⁹ Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ^(J)‘Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.’ ” ¹⁰ Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord ^(K)appeared in the cloud.

¹¹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^12 (L)“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ^(M)‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and ^(N)in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

¹³ So it was that ^(O)quail came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning ^(P)the dew lay all around the camp. ¹⁴ And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was ^(Q)a small round ^(R)substance, as fine as frost on the ground. ¹⁵ So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.

And Moses said to them, ^(S)“This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

¹⁷ “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden ^(A)manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone ^(B)a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’

³ all ate the same ^(A)spiritual food,

³⁵ And the children of Israel ^(A)ate manna ^(B)forty years, ^(C)until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.