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But now our lives are wasting away.[a] We have nothing at all to look at except this manna.”

The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like resin.[b] The people went around and gathered it up. They would grind it in hand mills or crush it in a mortar. They would boil it in pots or make it into loaves. It tasted like a cake made with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:6 Literally our soul has dried up, or we have lost our appetite, or our throat is dry
  2. Numbers 11:7 A rare Hebrew word, possibly referring to bdellium, a resin from Africa

But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!(A)

The manna was like coriander seed(B) and looked like resin.(C) The people went around gathering it,(D) and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

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