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! (D)We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”

Now (E)the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. (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. (H)When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

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