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Moreover the mixed multitude that was in their midst concealed not their lusting, - and so even the sons of Israel, fell away and wept, and said: Who will grant us to eat flesh?

We remember the fish that we did eat in Egypt, without money, - the cucumbers, and the water-melons, and the leeks and the onions, and the garlick.

But, now, our soul is dried up, there is nothing at all, - unless, unto the manna, we turn our eyes.

Now, the manna, was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof like the appearance of bdellium,

The people used to go about and pick it up, and grind it with a pair of mill-stones, or pound it in a mortar, and boil it in a pot, and make it into round cakes, - then was the taste thereof like the taste of a sweet cake made with oil.

When the dew came down upon the camp by night, the manna came down thereupon.