Numbers 11:7

Now the manna was like the seed of coriander, and its appearance as the appearance of bedilcha.

Targum Onkelos

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 longeth, yet there is nothing before our eyes but manna.

8And the people went about and gathered; and he who would ground it in mills, or he who would beat it in the mortar, and they dressed it in the pan, and made cakes of it, and its taste was like the taste of a confection of oil.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:14And when the dew which had fallen had gone up, behold, upon the face of the desert, a small (substance) without covering, small like hoar frost, heaped on the earth.

Exodus 16:31And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna; and it was as the seed of Gida white, and its taste was like cake broiled 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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