Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
Numbers 11:8 - New International Version (Anglicised) The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand-mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
He said to them, ‘This is what the Lord commanded: “Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.” ’
The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.’
Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”’