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The mixed multitude that was among them lusted, and the children of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. But now our life is dried up. There is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes.”

The manna was as coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium. The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked in oil. When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.

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