6. But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but this manna.”
7. Manna was like coriander seed and had the appearance of bdellium.
8. When they had gone about and gathered it up, the people would grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar, then cook it in a pot and make it into loaves, with a rich creamy taste.
9. At night, when the dew fell upon the camp, the manna also fell.
10. When Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents, so that the Lord became very angry, he was grieved.
11. “Why do you treat your servant so badly?” Moses asked the Lord. “Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people?
12. Was it I who conceived all this people? or was it I who gave them birth, that you tell me to carry them at my breast, like a nurse carrying an infant, to the land you have promised under oath to their fathers?
13. Where can I get meat to give to all this people? For they are crying to me, ‘Give us meat for our food.’
14. I cannot carry all this people by myself, for they are too heavy for me.