Numbers 11:7

The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.

World Messianic Bible British

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 we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

8The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:14When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:31The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he 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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