Exodus 16:31
New International Version
The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

New Living Translation
The Israelites called the food manna. It was white like coriander seed, and it tasted like honey wafers.

English Standard Version
Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Berean Standard Bible
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

King James Bible
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

New King James Version
And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

New American Standard Bible
And the house of Israel named the bread manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

NASB 1995
The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

NASB 1977
And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Amplified Bible
The house of Israel called the bread manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like flat pastry (wafers) made with honey.

Christian Standard Bible
The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

American Standard Version
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the children of Israel called its name manna, and it was like the seed of white coriander, and its taste like honeycomb of honey.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.

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

English Revised Version
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Israelites called the food [manna]. It was like coriander seeds. It was white and tasted like wafers made with honey.

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.

International Standard Version
The Israelis named it "manna". It was white like coriander seed, and tasted like a wafer made with honey.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Literal Standard Version
and the house of Israel calls its name Manna, and it [is] as white coriander seed; and its taste [is] as a cake with honey.

Majority Standard Bible
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like 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.

NET Bible
The house of Israel called its name "manna." It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers 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.

New Heart English Bible
The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the house of Israel called its name Manna: and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

World English Bible
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

Young's Literal Translation
and the house of Israel call its name Manna, and it is as coriander seed, white; and its taste is as a cake with honey.

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Context
The Sabbath Observed
30So the people rested on the seventh day. 31Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”…

Cross References
Exodus 16:14
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.

Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:32
Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

Numbers 11:7
Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:16
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.


Treasury of Scripture

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

called the name.

Exodus 16:15
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

Numbers 11:6,7
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes…

Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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Exodus 16
1. The Israelites come to Sin, and murmur for want of bread
4. God promises them bread and meat from heaven, and they are rebuked
13. Quail and manna are sent
16. The ordering of manna
25. It was not to be found on the Sabbath
32. An omer of it is preserved














(31) Manna.--Rather, man. (See Note on Exodus 16:15.) "Manna" is a Greek form, first used by the LXX. translator of Numbers (Exodus 11:6-7; Exodus 11:9).

It was like coriander seed.--The appearance of the manna is compared above to hoar frost (Exodus 16:14); here, and in Numbers 11:7, to coriander seed. The former account describes its look as it lay on the ground, the latter its appearance after it was collected and brought in. The coriander seed is "a small round grain, of a whitish or yellowish grey." In Numbers it is further said that the colour was that of bdellium, which is a whitish resin. . . .

Verses 31-36. - THE APPEARANCE OF THE MANNA, ITS CONTINUANCE, AND ITS DEPOSITION IN THE TABERNACLE. - In bringing the subject of the manna to a conclusion, the writer adds a few words.

1. On its appearance;

2. On its deposition by divine command in the Ark of the Covenant; and

3. On its continuance during the forty years of the wanderings. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now the house
בֵֽית־ (ḇêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

called
וַיִּקְרְא֧וּ (way·yiq·rə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

the bread manna.
מָ֑ן (mān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4478: Manna (a kind of bread)

It
וְה֗וּא (wə·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was white
לָבָ֔ן (lā·ḇān)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 3836: White

like coriander
גַּד֙ (gaḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1407: Coriander seed

seed
כְּזֶ֤רַע (kə·ze·ra‘)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

and tasted
וְטַעְמ֖וֹ (wə·ṭa‘·mōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2940: A taste, perception, intelligence, a mandate

like wafers
כְּצַפִּיחִ֥ת (kə·ṣap·pî·ḥiṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6838: A flat cake, wafer

made with honey.
בִּדְבָֽשׁ׃ (biḏ·ḇāš)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1706: Honey, syrup


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