Conclusion of A New Kind of Food

'You are to pick up as much as each person can eat,' Moses tells the people. So each morning this is what they do. Then, when the sun gets hot, the manna left on the ground melts.

Moses also says:  'No one is to save any of the manna over to the next day.'  But some of them don't listen. Do you know what happens?  The next morning the manna that they have saved is full of  worms, and it began to stink!

There is one day of the week, however, that Jehovah tells the people to gather twice as much manna.  This is the sixth day. And Jehovah says to save some of it over to the next day, because he will not cause any to fall on the seventh day.  When the save the manna over to the seventh day, it doesn't get full of worms and it doesn't stink!  This is another miracle! 

All the years that the Israelites are in the wilderness Jehovah feeds them with manna. 

Exodus 16:1-36; Numbers 11:7-9; Joshua 5:10-12.

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