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Exodus 16:31
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
Exodus 16:31 · World English Bible
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Exodus 16:31 in other translations
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.
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
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In context
28 The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
32 Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.”
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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