Manna

"In contrast, you nourished your people with the food of angels,"

"Yet he issued a command to the skies above"

"Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness,"

"The children of Israel called it manna. It was like coriander seed and was white. It tasted like wafers made from honey. Moses said, “This is what the Lord has ordered: ‘Fill an omer and conserve it for your descendants so that they can see the bread that I gave you to eat in the desert, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”"

"Manna had the shape of coriander seed and it looked like resin. The people would go around gathering it, and then they would grind it in a mill or beat it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. It tasted something like fresh olive oil. The manna would come down when the dew settled upon the camp at night."

"The layer of dew evaporated, and on the surface of the desert there was something small and flaky, as small as hoarfrost on the ground. The children of Israel saw it and said to one another, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given us as food."

"Remember how the Lord, your God, guided your path through the wilderness for these forty years, abasing you and testing you so that he might know what was in your heart, whether or not you would observe his commandments. He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord."