Numbers 11:6

But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

7Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:4And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 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. 7 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… Read the whole commentary →

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