Numbers 11:4-9 - The rabble had a strong craving

11:4-6

The rabble, notice how they are referred to! They had a strong craving. Complaining people are driven by desires, rather than by submission to the Lord. We then see how deranged their thinking was. They speak of their time in Egypt as though they were staying at a health spa! In reality they were in slavery. We need to recognise how our thinking can so easily get distorted. They also started resenting God’s provision for them, the manna from heaven. We need to watch our attitudes carefully.

11:7-9

We now get a description of the manna, and what the people did with it. It was like coriander seed, and looked like bdellium, which was a pale yellow resin found in desert regions. The people gathered it up, ground it and made cakes out of it. The manna came with the morning dew.