Numbers 11:4-9
English Standard Version
4 Now the (A)rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also (B)wept again and said, (C)“Oh that we had meat to eat! 5 (D)We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
7 Now (E)the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. 8 (F)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. (G)And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. 9 (H)When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.
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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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