Exodus 16:31
Good News Translation
The people of Israel called the food manna. It was like a small white seed, and tasted like thin cakes made with honey.

New Revised Standard Version
The house of Israel called it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and delicious as wafers made with honey.

New American Bible
The house of Israel named this food manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like wafers made with honey.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

called the name.

Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

Numbers 11:6,7 Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna. . . .

Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Context
The Sabbath Observed
30And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day. 31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.32And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:14
And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:30
And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:32
And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

Numbers 11:7
Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.

Deuteronomy 8:3
He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Deuteronomy 8:16
And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,

Exodus 16:30
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