Manna

The manna story is Paul's Old Testament proof that God designed provision to be equitable — when gathered communally, there was always exactly enough, modeling the balance he calls Corinth toward.

Manna is referenced here as part of the wilderness era when God was actively sustaining Israel — the very period during which, God reveals, they were already secretly carrying idols alongside his provision.

Manna is cited here as daily, undeniable proof of God's provision — the wilderness generation had received supernatural food every morning, which makes their conclusion that God hated them a remarkable act of willful forgetting.

Manna is cited as part of the forty-year track record Israel personally witnessed — daily supernatural provision that Moses uses as evidence that trusting God is not a blind leap but a historically grounded choice.

Manna appears here as one of the wilderness experiences Moses includes in his final theological summary — the daily bread from heaven is part of the evidence that God carried Israel through everything.

Manna is cited implicitly among God's wilderness provisions — the daily bread from heaven that demonstrated his sustained care, making Israel's doubt at Massah all the more inexcusable.

Manna is introduced and named here — the text explains that the word itself derives from the Israelites' own bewildered question, embedding their confusion into the miracle's identity.

Manna is cited here as one of the recent miracles Israel had already witnessed, making their panic at Rephidim all the more striking — God had literally fed them from the sky, yet they doubted him at the first sign of thirst.

Manna is cited here as one of several acts of wilderness provision — evidence that God has been sustaining Israel supernaturally in the months between Egypt and this moment at Sinai.

The manna is cited as evidence of God's daily supernatural provision — making Israel's turn to a golden idol all the more inexcusable given how recently and visibly God had fed them.