Of all the questions Israel asks in the wilderness, this one may be the most honest: “Is the Lord among us or not?”
By the time Jesus teaches His disciples to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” the manna in the wilderness has been gone for more than a thousand years.
The exception to the no-hoarding rule – on the sixth day, the people are told to gather double, and this time, when it is set aside for the Sabbath, it does not spoil.
Some instructions in Scripture sound almost too simple to need saying: Don’t save the bread.
I use “Lectio Divina” (Latin for “Divine Reading”) when I study scripture.
If this Passage had been written in the 21st century, I’m pretty sure it would have included the word “hangry” [irritable or angry because of hunger].
It is worth sitting with the fact that this complaint is not new.