Numbers 11:8 (BSB)

The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

From Numbers 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 11:8

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 11:4-15: These verses represent things sadly unhinged and out of order in Israel, both the people and the prince uneasy. I. Here is the people fretting, and speaking against God himself (as it is interpreted, Psa 78:19), notwithstanding his glorious appearances both to them and for them. Observe, 1. Who were the criminals. (1.) The mixed multitude began, they fell a lusting, Num 11:4.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 11:8: And the people went about and gathered it,.... Went about the camp on all sides, where it fell in plenty; this they did every morning, and this was all the trouble they were at; they had it for gathering, without any expense to them: and ground it in mills: in hand mills, as Aben Ezra; for though it melted through the heat of the sun...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 11:4-9: Num 11:4-9 The first impulse to this came from the mob that had come out of Egypt along with the Israelites. “The mixed multitude:” see at Exo 12:38. They felt and expressed a longing for the better food which they had enjoyed in Egypt, and which was not to be had in the desert, and urged on the Israelites to cry out for flesh again...