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Numbers 11:8

World English Bible

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.

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Numbers 11:8 in other translations

The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

Numbers 11:8 · American Standard Version

Numbers 11:8 in context

  1. 6but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
  2. 7The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
  3. 8The 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.
  4. 9When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
  5. 10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.