⁶ But now our appetite is gone;^[a] there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”

⁷ The manna^(A) resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.^{[b] 8} The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.