Exodus 16:31
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.
Exodus 16:31 in other translations
| BSB | Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. |
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| WEB | The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | And the house of Israel called its name Manna; and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like cake with honey. |
| BBE | And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Exodus 16:31 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:13-31
13-31. at even the quails came up, and covered the camp--This bird is of the gallinaceous kind [that is, relating to the order of heavy-bodied, largely terrestrial birds], resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtledove. They are found in certain seasons in the places through which the Israelites passed, being migratory birds, and they were probably brought to the camp by "a wind from the Lord" as…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 16:22-31
Here is mention of a seventh-day sabbath. It was known, not only before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, even from the beginning, Ge 2:3. The setting apart one day in seven for holy work, and, in order to that, for holy rest, was ever since God created man upon the earth, and is the most ancient of the Divine laws. Appointing them to rest on the seventh day, he…
Exodus 16:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 16:31
- Numbers 11:6-9
But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
15In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia {teranjabin.}
and it was.
Nu 11:6,7; So 2:3
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Context
- Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day.
- Exodus 16:31
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.
- Exodus 16:32
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 16:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y la casa de Israel lo llamó Maná; y era como simiente de culantro, blanco, y su sabor como de hojuelas con miel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et la maison d’Israël appela le nom de cela manne. Et elle était comme de la semence de coriandre, blanche, et avait le goût d’un gâteau au miel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Haus Israel gab ihm den Namen Man; und es war wie Koriandersamen, weiß, und sein Geschmack wie Kuchen mit Honig. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Appellavitque domus Israël nomen ejus Man: quod erat quasi semen coriandri album, gustusque ejus quasi similæ cum melle. |