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Numbers 11:7

Numbers 11:7 is verse 7 of Numbers chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

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King James Version

And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

World English Bible

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

Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.

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Numbers 11:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

6 But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

7 Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 16:14

When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:15

When 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.

Exodus 16:31

Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 1:24

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

Genesis 2:12

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

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