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

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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).

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

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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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