Exodus 16:13-15 Wrote:13 It came to pass in the evening that the quails went up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 The layer of dew went up, and behold, on the surface of the desert, a fine, bare [substance] as fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the children of Israel saw [it], they said to one another, It is manna, because they did not know what it was, and Moses said to them, It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
So the quails are the meat God promised in the afternoon (not clear how they captured them... shot them with spears? Bow & Arrows? Did they fall down dead?) and the dew that surfaces on the ground in the morning leaves behind the bread as a residue. Google tells me that "manna" actually means (in the original Hebrew) "what is it?" (so technically, "manna" doesn't really mean bread).
Robert's response:
My understanding is that the passage implies the quails were brought by a weather phenomenon during the course of which they died, and then the dead quails came to rest where Hashem intended.
Indeed there are two views of what "Mon" means:
Quote:'There are differences of opinion as to the source for the name “manna.”
Some say that mon means a “portion of food”;[3]
others say it got its name because the first time the Jews saw it, they said mon, Egyptian for “what.”[4]'
Citations:
3. Rashi on Exodus 16:15
4. Rashbam on Exodus 16:15
Extract source:
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_c...-Manna.htm