4 Now the ^amixed multitude who were among them¹ yielded to ^bintense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: ^c“Who will give us meat to eat?  ‡

5 ^aWe remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;  ‡

7 Now ^athe manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.  ‡

8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and ^aits taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.  ‡