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And the (A)rabble who were among them [a]had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “(B)Who will give us [b]meat to eat? (C)We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now (D)our [c]appetite is dried up. There is nothing at all [d]to look at except this manna.”

(E)Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of (F)bdellium. The people would go about and gather it and grind it [e]between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of [f]cakes baked with oil. (G)And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall [g]with it.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:4 Lit desired a desire
  2. Numbers 11:4 Lit flesh, so in ch
  3. Numbers 11:6 Lit soul
  4. Numbers 11:6 Lit for our eyes
  5. Numbers 11:8 Lit with
  6. Numbers 11:8 Lit juice of oil
  7. Numbers 11:9 Lit on