- GOD WITH HIS PEOPLE.

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The people you see in the picture are picking up
something from the ground. What do you think it is?
It is manna, or bread which God rained down from heaven.
This seems a strange way to get bread, but it is the way
God fed his people for forty years in the wilderness.

I told you, in our last lesson, that the children of
Israel had just escaped from the Egyptians, by passing
through the Red Sea on dry land. Their enemies were
swallowed up in the sea— Pharaoh, with all his host. The
people were very glad when they saw the wonderful deliv-
erance God had wrought for them, and they went forth
with music and dancing, and rejoiced greatly before him.

They soon found, however, they had come into a wil-
derness, where there was no bread for so vast a multitude.
But God had made great promises to his people, how he
would lead them and care for them; so he did not leave
them here to starve. No, he caused bread to rain down
from heaven, and the people went out in the morning and
gathered it. .

They could gather only enough for one day at a
time; if they tried to keep it over it would spoil. On