Here was a new trouble, so the people began to scold Moses and Aaron again, saying they wished they had stayed in Egypt after all. They forgot all about the cruel taskmasters, and the bricks, and their slavery; and they told Moses he had brought them into the wilderness to kill them with hunger! How soon they had forgotten all that God had done for them, and how they had walked through the midst of the sea on dry land! God was very grieved when He heard their murmurings; but He promised Moses that He would rain down bread from heaven for them to eat. So that evening the Lord sent a number of little birds, called quails, for the people to eat, and they satisfied their hunger; and in the morning He sent them the bread from heaven which He had promised. Perhaps you will say, children, "Loaves from heaven?" I daresay the Israelites thought the same, and wondered as you do. So in the morning when they went out of their tents, the dew laid on the ground, and when the dew was gone, the whole ground was covered with little white seeds. And the Children of Israel called it Manna. The Lord told them this was bread from heaven, and that they were to gather a measure—called an omer—full for each person, which would make them enough bread for the whole day. On the day before the Sabbath, they were told to gather two omers full for every person, and to make it into cakes ready for the Sabbath day. The taste of the cakes was like wafers made with honey. And now, children, here comes a very sweet little lesson for you and for me. Jesus is the true Bread from heaven, and every day, if we want to grow strong, and brave, and good, we should—before we begin the work, or play, or school of our day—kneel down and ask God to give us a sight of Jesus, and to let us taste the sweetness of His love. This will be our Bread from Heaven! But soon came another difficulty. As the great company moved on their journey, they left the water which God had made sweet far behind them; and very soon they were thirsty again, and there was no water to drink! They forgot all about the Manna and the sweetened water at Marah; and they went and scolded Moses again. So God told Moses to go to the Rock in Horeb, and to strike it with his Rod, and water would flow out of it for the people to drink. Moses did exactly as God told him, and the water flowed from the Rock, and so the People drank and were no longer thirsty. XLV. The Tabernacle in the Wilderness The children of Israel had been delivered from the bondage of the Egyptians, God had led them in the Wilderness by His pillar of cloud by day, and His pillar of fire by night; He had given them His Holy Law, which we call the Ten Commandments; and now God longed that the people should be brought near to Himself, and that He should be able to dwell among them.