Numbers 11:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ The people went about, gathered it up, and ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. It had a taste like something made 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

Now Jacob cooked a stew. When Esau came in from the field, he was exhausted,

Exodus 16:23

But he said to them, “This is what Adonai has said. Tomorrow is a Shabbat rest, a holy Shabbat to Adonai. Bake whatever you would bake, and boil what you would boil. Store up for yourselves everything that remains, to be kept until the morning.”

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel named it manna . It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Numbers 11:7

Now the manna was similar to coriander seed and had an appearance like gum resin.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew descended on the camp at night, the manna descended with it.

John 6:27

Don’t work for food that spoils, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on Him, God the Father has put the seal of approval.”

John 6:31

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘Out of heaven He gave them bread to eat.’”