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Exodus 16:31
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The house of Yisra'el called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
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.
And the house of Israel called its name "manna." And it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer with honey.
The people of Israel called the food manna. It was like small white seeds and tasted like wafers made with honey.
The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.
The house of Israel called the bread manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like flat pastry (wafers) made with honey.
And the house of Israel named the bread manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.
And the house of Israel called the name of it, MAN. and it was like to coriander seede, but white: and the taste of it was like vnto wafers made with hony.
And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.
The Israelites called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and delicious as wafers made with honey.
The people called the food man. It was like coriander seed, white; and it tasted like honey cakes.
And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey.
The people called the special food "manna." It was like small white coriander seeds and tasted like thin cakes made with honey.
Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
And the children of Israel called the name thereof manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like honeycomb.
The people of Israel called the food manna. It was like a small white seed, and tasted like thin cakes made with honey.
The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.
And the house of Israel called its name, Manna. And it was like the seed of coriander, white; and its taste like cakes with honey.
And the house of Israel called it Man, and it was like Coriander sede, and whyte, & had a taist like symnels with hony.
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.
And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.
And the house of Israel called the name therof Manna: and it was like coriander seede, but yet whyte, and the taste of it was lyke wafers made with honye.
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.
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 hony.
And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.
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.
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
And the hous of Israel clepide the name therof man, which was whijt as the seed of coriandre, and the taast therof was as of flour with hony.
and the house of Israel call its name Manna, and it [is] as coriander seed, white; and its taste [is] as a cake with honey.
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.
And the house of Israel called its name Manna: and it [was] like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.
The house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
And the house of Israel called its name Manna. Exodus 16:15)">[fn] And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers.
The house of Israel called it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna, - and the same, was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof, like flat-cake with honey,
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.
Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
The Israelites named it manna (What is it?). It looked like coriander seed, whitish. And it tasted like a cracker with honey.
The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
called the name: Exodus 16:15, In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia teranjabin.
and it was: Numbers 11:6, Numbers 11:7, Song of Solomon 2:3
Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:4 - wafers Numbers 11:8 - taste of it Numbers 21:5 - and our soul
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna,.... For till now they had given it no name; which shows that the words are not to be read as we render them in Exodus 16:15 it is manna, unless this is to be considered as a confirmation of that name; but rather as an interrogation, "what is it?" though, from thence, "man" being the first word they made use of on sight of it, might so call it; or as others, from its being now an appointed, prepared, portion and gift, which they every day enjoyed, Exodus 16:15- :,
and it was like coriander seed, white that the colour of the manna was white is not only here asserted, but is plain from other passages, it being like the hoar frost, which is white, Exodus 16:14 and its colour is the colour of bdellium, Numbers 11:7 or pearl, which is of a white bright colour, as the word is interpreted by the Jews; and who say u, that the manna was round as a coriander seed, and white as a pearl; but then if it is here compared to the coriander seed on that account, some other seed than what we call coriander seed must be meant, since that is off darkish colour; though it is thought by most that the comparison with it is not on account of the colour, but its form being round, as a coriander seed is, and as the manna is said to be, Exodus 16:14. Josephus w thinks it is compared to the coriander seed for its being about the size of that seed; though I must confess it seems to me to be compared to the coriander seed for its colour, and therefore "Gad", the word used, must signify something else than what we call coriander seed; but what that is, is not easy to say: Ben Gersom is of the same mind, and thinks it refers to colour, and fancies the "Gad" had his name from his whiteness, Genesis 20:11. Artapanus x, the Heathen, makes mention of this food of the Jews in the wilderness, where, he says, they were thirty years; during which time God rained upon them meal like to panic (a sort of grain like millet), in colour almost as white as snow: and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey; or cakes that had honey mixed in them: though in Numbers 11:8 the taste of it is said to be as the taste of fresh oil, which Saadiah Gaon, Aben Ezra, and others, account for thus; that if a man ate of it as it came down, it was as cakes of honey, but, when dressed, it was as the taste of fresh oil; however, it was very palatable and agreeable to the taste; honey that drops from palm trees is said to be not much different in taste from oil: the Jews y have a notion that there were all kinds of tastes in the manna, suited to the ages and appetites of persons, and that as they would have it, so it tasted; which notion the author of the book of Wisdom seems to give into,
"Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels' food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man's delight, and agreeing to every taste. For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.'' (Wisdom 16:20-21)
Leo Africanus z speaks of a sort of manna found in great plenty in the deserts in Libya, which the inhabitants gather in vessels every morning to carry to market, and which being mixed with water is drank for delight, and being put into broth has a very refreshing virtue: of the round form and white colour of manna, as applicable to Christ, notice has been taken on Exodus 16:14 and the sweetness of its taste well agrees with him the antitype: his person is so to them who have tasted that the Lord is gracious; his word or Gospel is sweeter than the honey or the honeycomb; his mouth is most sweet, the doctrines that proceed from it, and the exceeding great and precious promises of it; his fruits and the blessings of his grace, peace, pardon, righteousness, &c. are sweet to those that sit under his shadow, where faith often feeds sweetly and with delight upon him,
u T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 75. 1. w Antiqu. l. 3. c. 1. sect. 6. x Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 436. y Shemot Rabba, sect 25. fol. 108. 4. & Bemidar Rabba, sect. 7. fol. 188. z Descriptio Africae, l. 7. p. 631.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
manna - It was not indeed the common manna, as they then seem to have believed, but the properties which are noted in this passage are common to it and the natural product: in size, form and color it resembled the seed of the white coriander, a small round grain of a whitish or yellowish grey.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 16:31. Called the name thereof Manna — Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:15.
