But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”

Now (A)the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. (B)The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. (C)And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

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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.

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