30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The house of (A)Israel named it [a]manna, and it was like (B)coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey. 32 Then Moses said, “This is [b]what the Lord has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

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  1. Exodus 16:31 Heb man, cf v 15
  2. Exodus 16:32 Lit the thing which

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The people of Israel called the bread manna.[a](A) It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:31 Manna sounds like the Hebrew for What is it? (see verse 15).