Exodus 16:31

The people of Israel called that food “manna.” It was white like coriander seed, and its taste was like wafers made with honey.

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In The King James Version

And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

In Context

30So the people rested on the seventh day.

32Moses said, “This is what Yahweh has commanded: 'Let an omer of manna be kept throughout your people's generations so that your descendants might see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, after I brought you out from the land of Egypt.'”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:6Now our appetite is gone, because all we can see is this manna.”

Song of Solomon 2:3As an apricot tree among the trees of the forest, 1 so is my beloved among the young men. 1 I sit down under his shadow with great delight, 1 and his fruit is sweet to my taste. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:23-32

22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord : bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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