Numbers 11:8

New English Translation

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

Cross References

Genesis 25:29

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Exodus 16:23

He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”

Exodus 16:31

The house of Israel called its name “manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.

Numbers 11:7

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

Numbers 11:9

And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put 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.’”