Numbers 11:7

And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna.

8And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:14in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.

Exodus 16:31And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.

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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