the manna was white. People at first did not know what breadfruit was and refused to eat it; the Israelites complained about eating manna. Breadfruit can get moldy; the manna got infested with ...

They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea.

“The house of Israel named it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and it tasted like wafers in honey” (Exodus 31:16). The manna extracted from ash trees is also edible and remarkably swee ...

For they did not know what it was.... The people of Israel called it manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey” (Ex. 16:14-15, 31). The midrash elaborates on ...