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Numbers 11

Numbers 11:8

The Complaints of the People · Numbers 11:1–9
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Translations

Modern
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
Traditional
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.
Literal
The people went about and gathered it, and ground it on millstones, or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in the pan, and made cakes of it. And its taste was like the taste of the pastry of oil.
Latin
Circuibatque populus, et colligens illud, frangebat mola, sive terebat in mortario, coquens in olla, et faciens ex eo tortulas saporis quasi panis oleati.

Original

Hebrew
English
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

Notes

Numbers 11:7–9

People often explain manna as a naturally occurring edible substance (but see Deuteronomy 8:3). Yet, its amount and how long it lasted was miraculous.

Numbers 11:4–15

Israel had not given up the attitude that led to judgment at Taberah (11:1–3). At Taberah, the people complained, and the Lord sent fire among them.

Soon after, they joined the foreign rabble (a mixed group of non-Israelites who had left Egypt with them) in craving the foods of Egypt. They longed for the fish, vegetables, and other foods they had known there.

In doing this, they forgot the suffering and slavery they had experienced in Egypt. They remembered the food but ignored the hardship.

Numbers 11:1–35

This is one of many occasions in the wilderness when Israel was disobedient to the Lord.

Theme notes and profiles

Moses Bread from Heaven Spirit Empowerment

Glossary

Bread Deuteronomy, Book of Manna Numbers, Book of

Topics

Almond: Aaron's Rod of The Blessing: Temporal, from God in Egypt: Manna Bread: Made of Manna (In the Wilderness) Bread: Manna Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Murmuring of the Mixed Multitude and of Israel, for Flesh Manna: General Scriptures Concerning Manna: Like in Taste to Oil Manna: The Israelites: Ground, Made Into Cakes and Baked in Pans Mill: Manna Ground In Mills used for Grinding: Manna in the Wilderness Mortar: An Instrument for Pulverizing Grain Murmuring: Israelites Trouble: Food