How it works
After the sea, the people walked into the wilderness, a dry, wild land with no farms or shops. Their food ran out, and they grumbled to Moses and Aaron that they were hungry.
God said he would rain down bread from heaven, and each day the people must gather just enough. That evening quail flew in, and there was meat for supper.
In the morning, when the dew dried, small thin flakes lay on the ground like frost. This bread is called manna. Each family gathered what it needed, and nobody ran short.
The extra spoiled by morning, but on the sixth day they gathered double and it kept fresh. On the seventh day they rested. The bread came for forty years.