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Wisdom 16:20
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 16:20
New Catholic Bible
20 In contrast, you nourished your people with the food of angels,[a]
and with no labor on their part, you supplied them with bread from heaven that was ready to eat,
filled with every delight and pleasing to every taste.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 16:20 Food of angels: i.e., the manna (Ps 78:23-25), which tasted like a honey cake (Ex 16:31) and was a sign of God’s mercy (v. 21; Pss 34:8; 119:103). As the text shows, Jewish tradition had embellished the more sober text of Exodus (Ex 16:13-21). The Liturgy uses these texts with regard to the Eucharist.
