Numbers 11:7

Manna looked like coriander seeds, light in color like gum resin.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

6We're fading away here! The only thing we ever see is this manna!”

8The people would go out and collect it, grind it up in a mill or crush it in a mortar. Then they would boil it in a pot and make it into flatbread. It tasted like pastries made with the best olive oil.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:14Once the dew had gone, there was something thin and flaky on the desert, looking like frost crystals on the ground.

Exodus 16:31The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers with honey.

Revelation 2:17If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit is telling the churches. I will give the hidden manna to those who are victorious. I will give them a white stone with a new name written on it that nobody knows except those who receive it.

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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