Numbers 11:6

our soul is dry; our eyes behold none other thing than manna. (but now our bodies be all dried up, and there is nothing to see but this manna!)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

In Context

5We think upon the fish that we ate in Egypt freely (or We remember all the fish that we ate in Egypt); gourds, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic come into our mind (s);

7Soothly manna was as the seed of coriander, of the colour of bdellium, which is white, and (as) bright as crystal.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:4Which said to Amnon, Son of the king, why art thou made feeble so by leanness, by all days? why showest thou not to me? (or And he said to Amnon, Son of the king, why art thou made so weak and thin, day after day? why not tellest thou to me?) And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.

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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