31 The people of Israel called the bread manna.[a](A) It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:31 Manna sounds like the Hebrew for What is it? (see verse 15).

31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

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But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!(A)

The manna was like coriander seed(B) and looked like resin.(C) The people went around gathering it,(D) and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. When the dew(E) settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

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But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

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15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know(A) what it was.

Moses said to them, “It is the bread(B) the Lord has given you to eat.

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15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

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