Numbers 11:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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 it tasted like cakes baked with fresh oil.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ The people would roam around and collect it and grind it with millstones or pound it in a mortar. Then they would boil it in pots and make it into cakes. It tasted like cakes baked in olive oil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And the people wandered about, gathering it, and they crushed it with a millstone, or ground it with a mortar; then they boiled it in a pot, and made biscuits out of it, with a taste like bread made with oil.

Numbers 11:8 Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted.

Exodus 16:23

He told them, ‘This is what the Lord has said: “Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath  to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.” ’

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel named the substance manna.  , It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Numbers 11:7

The manna  resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.

Numbers 11:9

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

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that perishes   but for the food that lasts for eternal life,   which the Son of Man   will give you, because God the Father   has set his seal of approval on him.’

John 6:31

Our ancestors ate the manna  in the wilderness,  just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’  ,