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but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.” The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.[a] 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.

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  1. 11:7 Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.

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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