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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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called the name
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Exd 16:15; In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia {teranjabin.} |
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and it was
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Num 11:6,7; Sgs 2:3 |
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Exd 16:15 |
And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. |
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Num 11:6 |
But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. |
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Num 11:7 |
And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. |
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Sgs 2:3 |
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 16:31," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Exd/16/31.html>.
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