Catholic Public Domain Version
"Our life is dry; our eyes look out to see nothing but manna.” "
— Numbers 11:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.”
“but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon. ”
“but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."”
“But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!””
“Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.”
“But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.”
“But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.”
And he called the name of that place, ‘The Burning,’ because the fire of the Lord had burned against them.
So then, the mix of common people, who had ascended with them, were enflamed with desire, and sitting and weeping, with the sons of Israel joining them, they said, “Who will give us flesh to eat?
We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt; we call to mind the cucumbers, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic.
Our life is dry; our eyes look out to see nothing but manna.”
Now the manna was like coriander seed, but with the color of bdellium.
And the people wandered about, gathering it, and they crushed it with a millstone, or ground it with a mortar; then they boiled it in a pot, and made biscuits out of it, with a taste like bread made with oil.
And when the dew descended in the night over the camp, the manna descended together with it.