“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.”
The people went around and gathered it, grinding it in mills or beating it in mortars, then cooking it in pots and making cakes of it; and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked in oil — the Israelites' labor to prepare manna (gathering, grinding, beating, cooking) suggests that the food requires substantial work. The baked-cake result, 'like cakes baked in oil,' suggests pleasant taste. Yet all this labor for the same food, day after day, apparently exhausts the people's patience.
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