Numbers 11:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with 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

And Yaʽ

Exodus 16:23

And he said to them, “This is what יהוה  has said, ‘Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set-apart to יהוה. That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.’ ”

Exodus 16:31

And the house of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 11:7

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

Numbers 11:9

And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.

John 6:27

“Do not labour for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to everlasting life, which the Son of Aḏ

John 6:31

“Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread out of the heaven to eat.’ ”