Numbers 11:6-9

11:6 But now we ¹  are dried up, ²  and there is nothing at all before us ³  except this manna!” 11:7 (Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ⁴  11:9 And when the dew came down ⁵  on the camp in the night, the manna fell ⁶  with it.)

[11:6]  ¹ tn Heb “our souls.”

[11:6]  ² sn The Hebrews were complaining both about the bland taste of the manna and dehydration – they were parched in the wilderness.

[11:6]  ³ tn Heb “before our eyes,” meaning that “we see nothing except this manna.”

[11:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “And its taste was like the taste of fresh olive oil.”

[11:9]  ⁵ tn The temporal clause is constructed of the infinitive construct from יָרָד (yarad) with a temporal preposition, followed by the subjective genitive.

[11:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “came down.”