Numbers 11:4-9
Christian Standard Bible
Complaints about Food
4 The riffraff[a] among them(A) had a strong craving(B) for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat? 5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,(C) along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. 6 But now our appetite is gone;[b] there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
7 The manna(D) resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.[c] 8 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. 9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.(E)
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Numbers 11:4-9
New American Standard Bible
4 Now the (A)rabble who were among them [a]had greedy cravings; and the sons of Israel also wept again and said, “(B)Who will give us [b]meat to eat? 5 (C)We remember the fish which we used to eat for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now (D)our [c]appetite is gone. There is nothing at all [d]to look at except this manna!”
7 (E)Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of [e](F)bdellium. 8 The people would roam about and gather it and grind it [f]between two millstones, or pound it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make loaves with it; and its taste was like the taste of [g]cake baked with oil. 9 (G)When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would come down [h]with it.
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- Numbers 11:4 Lit desired a desire
- Numbers 11:4 Lit flesh, and so throughout the ch
- Numbers 11:6 Lit soul has dried up
- Numbers 11:6 Lit for our eyes
- Numbers 11:7 I.e., a tree gum
- Numbers 11:8 Lit with
- Numbers 11:8 Lit juice of oil
- Numbers 11:9 Lit on
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