³ all ate the same ^(A)spiritual food, ⁴ and all drank the same ^(B)spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

⁸ See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord ^[a]swore to your fathers—to ^(A)Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

^6 (A)Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.”

And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

¹⁴ And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was ^(A)a small round ^(B)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, ^(C)“This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.

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.

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

³² Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but ^(C)My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

^34 (D)Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ And Jesus said to them, ^(E)“I am the bread of life. ^(F)He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never ^(G)thirst.

¹⁵ So ^(A)I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, ^(B)‘flowing with milk and honey,’ ^(C)the glory of all lands,