Numbers 11:4-9
Legacy Standard Bible
4 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? 5 (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, 6 but now (D)our [c]appetite is dried up. 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 (F)bdellium. 8 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. 9 (G)And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall [g]with it.
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- Numbers 11:4 Lit desired a desire
- Numbers 11:4 Lit flesh, so in ch
- Numbers 11:6 Lit soul
- Numbers 11:6 Lit for our eyes
- Numbers 11:8 Lit with
- Numbers 11:8 Lit juice of oil
- Numbers 11:9 Lit on
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.
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- Numbers 11:6 Literally our soul has dried up, or we have lost our appetite, or our throat is dry
- Numbers 11:7 A rare Hebrew word, possibly referring to bdellium, a resin from Africa
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