KJV King James Version
But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 11:6
But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
WEB World English Bible
but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
ASV American Standard Version
but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and now our soul is dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.’
Surrounding context — Numbers 11
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
4 And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
7 And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
8 [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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Numbers 21:5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.2 Samuel 13:4And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.
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