7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its outward appearance was like that of bdellium-gum.
8. The people went about and gathered it, and they ground it with mills or crushed it with mortar. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes.
9. When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down with it.
10. Moses heard the people weeping according to their clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then Yahweh became very angry, and in the eyes of Moses it was bad.
11. And Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?
12. Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, ‘Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?’
13. From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat and let us eat!’