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Exodus 16:31

Israel

29 Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

33 So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

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BSB
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
KJV
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
WEB
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
ASV
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers [made] with honey.
DARBY
And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey.
BLB
And the house of Israel called its name Manna, and it [was] like white coriander seed, and its taste [was] like wafers with honey.
ÅB
Og israelittene kalte det manna[^2]; det lignet korianderfrø, det var hvitt, og det smakte som honningkake.
OTB
Israelittene kalte brødet manna. Det var hvitt som korianderfrø og smakte som kaker laget med honning.
B1930
Og israelittene kalte det manna; det lignet korianderfrø, det var hvitt, og det smakte som honningkake. / < hebr. man, d.e. hvad er det?.>

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Cross references

  • Numbers 11:6–9

    But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

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  • Song of Solomon 2:3

    Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

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  • Exodus 16:15

    When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

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