Exodus 16:31 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 16:31

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

BSB

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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.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 3:8 (253)

The Word of God becomes all these things to each and every one according as the capacity or the desire of the participant requires. In just the same way the manna also, although it was one food, yielded its flavor to each person after his desire. So he does not offer himself only as bread to those who hunger and as wine to those who thirst, but he presents himself also as fragrant apples to those who crave delights.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

manna - It was not indeed the common manna, as they then seem to have believed, but the properties which are noted in this passage are common to it and the natural product: in size, form and color it resembled the seed of the white coriander, a small round grain of a whitish or yellowish grey.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Though it may be exhaled by the heat and afterwards fall with the dew, it is a medicine, not food--it is well known to the natives of the desert, while the Israelites were strangers to theirs; and in taste as well as in the appearance of double quantity on Friday, none on Sabbath, and in not breeding worms, it is essentially different from the manna furnished to the Israelites.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרְא֧וּ	vai.yik.re.'U	and they called	H7121 →
בֵֽית־	veit-	[the] household of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name its	H8034 →
מָ֑ן	Man	manna	H4478 →
וְה֗וּא	ve.Hu'	and it	H1931 →
כְּזֶ֤רַע	ke.Ze.ra'	[was] like [the] seed of	H2233 →
גַּד֙	gad	coriander	H1407 →
לָבָ֔ן	la.Van	white	H3836 →
וְטַעְמ֖וֹ	ve.ta'.Mo	and taste its	H2940 →
כְּצַפִּיחִ֥ת	ke.tza.pi.Chit	[was] like a wafer	H6838 →
בִּדְבָֽשׁ׃	bid.Vash	with honey	H1706 →

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Through
Exodus 16:15
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you…
leads to
- Exodus 16:4
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I…
- John 6:58
  This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
- John 6:31–32
  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- 1 Corinthians 10:3
  They all ate the same spiritual food
- 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,…
Through
Song of Solomon 2:3
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
leads to
- Song of Solomon 8:5
  Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Hebrews 1:1–6
  On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
- Isaiah 25:4
  For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like…

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