The Acceptable Christian Sin of Gluttony #29

TEXT: Numbers 11:4-6

The mixed multitude stirred the waters of discontent among the children of Israel and they all began expressing that they were tired of the manna that God had been giving them and wanted some meat to eat. This passage gives more insight on the nature of the manna with these words: "The manna was as coriander seed [the seed from which comes cilantro and parsley], and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium [a fragrant, transparent precious stone]. 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."