Numbers 11:4-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

Complaints About the Food

⁴ The foreign rabble who were among the Israelites were overcome by their craving. The Israelites also wept once again and said, “Who is going to give us meat to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. ⁶ But now our lives are wasting away.^[a] We have nothing at all to look at except this manna.”

⁷ The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like resin.^{[b] 8} The people went around and gathered it up. They would grind it in hand mills or crush it in a mortar. They would boil it in pots or make it into loaves. It tasted like a cake made with oil. ⁹ When dew fell on the camp during the night, the manna fell along with it.