OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Numbers 11:7

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

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Numbers 11:7 in context

Numbers 11:4–10

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The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

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

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

8

The 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.

9

When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

10

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

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  1. Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.

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