Numbers 11:8

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

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

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.

10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
KJV
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.
WEB
The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
ASV
The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
DARBY
The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.
BLB
The people went about and gathered [it], and ground [it] on millstones, or beat [it] in the mortar, and cooked [it] in the pan, and made cakes of it. And its taste was like the taste of the pastry of oil.
ÅB
Folket løp hit og dit og sanket og malte den på håndkvern eller støtte den i morter og kokte den i gryter eller bakte kaker av den, og den smakte som oljekake.
OTB
Folket gikk omkring og samlet den, og malte den i kverner eller knuste den i mortere. De kokte den i gryter og laget kaker av den, og den smakte som noe laget med olivenolje.
B1930
Folket løp hit og dit og sanket og malte den på håndkvern eller støtte den i morter og kokte den i gryter eller bakte kaker av den, og den smakte som oljekake.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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 16:16–18

    This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

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  • John 6:27

    Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

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  • Exodus 16:23

    And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

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  • John 6:33–58

    For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

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