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Exodus 16:31
Exodus 16:31 is verse 31 of Exodus chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Manna sounds like the Hebrew for What is it? (see verse 15).
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.
World English Bible
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
“Manna” means “What is it?”
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Exodus 16:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
33 So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 16:15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Numbers 11:6But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
Numbers 11:7Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
Song of Solomon 2:3Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.