A moment in scripture
Numbers 11:7
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And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 11:5
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:
- Numbers 11:6
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
- Numbers 11:8
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Numbers 11:9
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.