But now our appetite is gone;[a] there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”

The manna(A) resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.[b] The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:6 Or our lives are wasting away, or our throat is dry
  2. Numbers 11:7 A yellowish, transparent gum resin

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