Numbers 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As coriander seed; not for colour, for that is black, but for shape and figure. Bdellium is either,

1. The gum of a tree, of a white and bright colour; or rather,

2. A gem or precious stone, as the Hebrew doctors take it; and particularly a pearl, as some render it, wherewith the manna doth manifestly agree both in its colour, which is white, Exodus 16:14, and in its figure, which is round. See more on Genesis 2:12.

Numbers 11:7

7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.