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The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
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Verse 7. Bdellium. Bdellium, according to Pliny, (l. xxi. chapter 9,) was of the colour of a man’s nail, white and bright; ( Challoner.) or like wax, (B. xii. 9,) between white and yellow. It might resemble a tarnished pearl or ivory in colour, and coriander-seed in shape.
Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.
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