“Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.”
Then the Lord said to Moses: I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. The bread from heaven — manna — is announced with the word rain, the same word used for the hail in Exodus 9:18. What God rained as judgment on Egypt He now rains as provision for Israel. The daily gathering instruction introduces the mechanism of the test: enough for that day. The economy of the manna is the economy of daily dependence — not stockpiling, not anxiety about tomorrow, not hoarding against future scarcity. Matthew 6:11 says give us today our daily bread — the Lord's Prayer is built on the manna economy. The bread from heaven that sustained Israel in the wilderness is the type of the Bread from Heaven that Jesus claims to be in John 6:35.
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