Numbers 11:8 - Easy To Read Version

⁸ The people gathered the manna. Then they used rocks to crush it and cooked it in a pot. Or they ground it into a flour and made thin cakes with it. The cakes tasted like sweet cakes cooked with olive 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot: and made cakes thereof of the taste of bread tempered with oil.

Numbers 11:8 Cross References

Genesis 25:29

One time Esau came back from hunting. He was tired and weak from hunger. Jacob was boiling a pot of beans.

Exodus 16:23

Moses told them, “This is what the Lord said would happen. It happened because tomorrow is the Sabbath, the special day of rest to honor the Lord. You can cook all the food you need to cook for today. But save the rest of this food for tomorrow morning.”

Exodus 16:31

The people began calling the special food “manna. [109] ” The manna was like small white coriander seeds, and it tasted like thin cakes made with honey.

Numbers 11:7

(The manna was like small coriander seeds, and it looked like gum from a tree.

Numbers 11:9

The manna fell on the ground each night when the ground became wet with dew.)

John 6:27

Earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good always and gives you life forever. The Son of Man {\cf2\super [87]} will give you that food. God the Father showed that he is with the Son of Man.”

John 6:31

Our fathers (ancestors) ate the manna (food) God gave them in the desert. This is written in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [89]} : ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ {\cf2\super [90]} ”