Session 11 · Manna

¹When the people complained, it displeased the Lord. When the Lord heard it, His anger burned, and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

²When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

³So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

⁴Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

⁵We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

⁶But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

⁷(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.

⁸And 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.

⁹And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

¹The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, His anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

²The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

³The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.

⁴The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

⁵We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

⁶but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

⁷The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

⁸The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

⁹When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.