For a more specific search, turn to Exodus 16.
On the fifteenth day of the second month from their departure out of Egypt, the congregation of Israel found themselves at the Wilderness of Sin which was located between Elim and Sinai (Exodus 16:1). The entire congregation complained against Moses and Aaron because they were suffering from hunger and said that they were brought into the wilderness to be killed with hunger (Exodus 16:3).
In searching the scriptures in Exodus 16, it was revealed that God heard the murmurs of the assembly and gave Moses specific instructions to deliver to the people to test them to see whether they would walk in His law or not. At the same time, God wanted the people to know that He is their God.
God would rain bread from heaven for the people and the law was that they were to gather a certain amount each day except on the sixth day when they were to double the amount gathered. The double portion gathered on the sixth day was to feed them through the seventh day or Sabbath so they would not have to gather on that day.
Some of the people disobeyed and went to gather on the Sabbath, but found no bread. Moses was responsible for the people and their disobedience was the same as if he had disobeyed. God asked Moses, "How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day" (Exodus 16:28-30).
Manna was the name given by the house of Israel for the bread rained from heaven. Manna was "...like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey" (Exodus 16:31).
"And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept." (Exodus 16:32-34).
"And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan" (Exodus 16:35).
"Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah" (Exodus 16:36).
God's Hand in the Matter: With specific commandments to follow, the assembly of people were provided food by God. Murmurs became quietened as the people followed God's law. The people knew the Lord as their God.
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