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Numbers 11:7

5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

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BSB
Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
KJV
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
WEB
The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
ASV
And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.
DARBY
And the manna was as coriander seed, and its appearance as the appearance of bdellium.
BLB
And the manna was like coriander seed, and its eye was like the eye of of bdellium.
ÅB
Mannaen lignet korianderfrø, og av utseende var den som bdellium.
OTB
Mannaen var som korianderfrø og hadde utseende som harpiks.
B1930
Mannaen lignet korianderfrø, og av utseende var den som bdellium.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 16:31

    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.

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  • Exodus 16:14–15

    And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

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  • Genesis 2:12

    And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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  • 1 Corinthians 1:23–24

    But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

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  • Revelation 2:17

    He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

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