Numbers 11:7

Manna was like coriander seed. It looked like 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

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

8The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it in mills, beat it in mortars, boiled it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:14When the dew was gone, there on the surface of the wilderness were thin flakes like frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:31The people of Israel called that food “manna.” It was white like coriander seed, and its taste was like wafers made with honey.

Revelation 2:17Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone with a new name written on the stone, a name which no one knows but the one who receives 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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