Jesus here quoted the prophet Moses, who told the Israelites: “[Jehovah] humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you with the manna, which neither you had known nor your fathers had known; in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live but by every expression of Jehovah’s mouth does man live. ”
अगर वे एक दिन के लिए जितना ज़रूरी था उससे ज़्यादा मन्‍ना इकट्ठा करते, तो बचे हुए मन्‍ना से बदबू आने लगती और उसमें कीड़े पड़ जाते थे ।