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But now our [a]appetite is gone; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] [b]to be seen but this manna.”

The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like [c]bdellium. The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:6 Lit our throat is dry.
  2. Numbers 11:6 Lit for our eyes.
  3. Numbers 11:7 A gum resin obtained from various trees of the genus Commiphora. This resin was used as an ingredient to make incense or perfume, and was also used as a topical ointment.

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