God comes through (Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15)
The One who promised Moses perpetual presence is apparently someone to be trusted.
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Although this is not one of the more famous “testing” texts of the Wilderness Wanderings—God testing the people or vice-versa—it is reminiscent of them. There’s a fair amount of murmuring afoot, and the mob—still in the infancy of becoming a people—is clearly not too sure about this God whom Moses proclaims and in whom he seems to have a growing sense of trust. So they push and agitate. To be on the safe side, their initial murmuring has been directed at Moses and Aaron, but the clear culprit is the One who sent them off into nowheresville in the first place.
