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Exodus 16: Desert of Sin: Manna from heaven

Exodus 16: Desert of Sin: Manna from heaven. Israelites are wandering in the desert. They are grumbling and mad and upset. Jesus as Bread of life is a direct reference to this Old Testament account. They say they should have stayed in Egypt, at least they had food to eat; Flesh pots.

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Exodus 16: Desert of Sin: Manna from heaven

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  1. Exodus 16: Desert of Sin:Manna from heaven Israelites are wandering in the desert. They are grumbling and mad and upset. Jesus as Bread of life is a direct reference to this Old Testament account. They say they should have stayed in Egypt, at least they had food to eat; Flesh pots. God provides a way where there seems to be no way. Manna (Bread) comes down from heaven.

  2. What the Manna might have been Many scholars have identified the Biblical manna with the juice exuded by a variety of Tamarix gallica (Tamarix mannifera) when it is pricked by an insect (Coccus manniparus), and known to the Arabs as mann es-sama, "gift of heaven" or "heavenly manna".

  3. Others think they have found the true manna in a lichen, Lenora esculenta (also known as Spharothallia esculenta), met with in Western Asia and North Africa. It easily scales off, and being carried away by the wind sometimes falls in the form of a rain. In times of famine it is ground and mixed with other substances to make a kind of bread. But this lichen is dry and insipid, and possesses little nutritive value.

  4. Manna, general name for several food substances, mostly sweetening agents, derived from unrelated plants. Flowering, or manna, ash, Fraxinus ornus (see Ash), produces from incisions an exudate that is 80 percent mannitol, a sugar alcohol, and is grown for this purpose in Sicily. Some members of the legume family, Alhagi species, native to Egypt and Syria, produce a similar kind of manna as an exudate on twigs. When it solidifies the bushes are shaken, knocking off the manna. When the scale insect Coccus manniparus punctures the bark of a Mediterranean species of tamarisk, Tamarix mannifera, a sweet substance is produced that falls to the ground and solidifies. Some experts believe that the manna of the Bible was the lichen Lecanora esculenta, or a related species. Arabs still gather this lichen and mix it with meal to produce bread. When dry, it can be torn from the soil and transported by the wind, producing a "rain" of food.

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