14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost(A) on the ground appeared on the desert floor.

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14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

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31 The people of Israel called the bread manna.[a](A) It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:31 Manna sounds like the Hebrew for What is it? (see verse 15).

31 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.

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The manna was like coriander seed(A) and looked like resin.(B) The people went around gathering it,(C) 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. When the dew(D) settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

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And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

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.

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

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15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(A) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(B) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(C) to give them.(D)

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15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

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23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above
    and opened the doors of the heavens;(A)

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23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

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24 he rained down manna(A) for the people to eat,
    he gave them the grain of heaven.

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24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

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