Numbers 11:4-9

New International Reader's Version

The Lord Sends Quail for the People to Eat

⁴ Some people with them began to wish for other food. Again the Israelites began to cry out. They said, “We wish we had meat to eat. ⁵ We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. It didn’t cost us anything. We also remember the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. ⁶ But now we’ve lost all interest in eating. We never see anything but this manna!”

⁷ The manna was like coriander seeds. It looked like sap from a tree. ⁸ The people went around gathering it. Then they ground it up in a small mill they held in their hands. Or they crushed it in a stone bowl. They cooked it in a pot. Or they made loaves out of it. It tasted like something made with olive oil. ⁹ When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna also came down.