LXX Numbers 11:7
Septuagint
5 We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt without cost and the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic. 6 But now our soul is parched; our eyes are nothing but into the manna.” 7 Now the manna is like coriander seed, and its appearance is the appearance of hoarfrost. 8 And the people would go through and gather it and would grind it between the millstones and crush it in the mortar and would boil it in the earthen pot and form it into loafs, and the taste of it was like the taste of a wafer with olive oil. 9 And whenever the dew descended on the encampment during the night, the manna would come down on it.
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Wisdom of Solomon 16:22
Deuterocanon
20 Instead of these things you gave your people food of angels, and without their toil you supplied them from heaven with bread ready to eat, providing every pleasure and suited to every taste. 21 For your sustenance manifested your sweetness toward your children; and the bread, ministering to the desire of the one who took it, was changed to suit everyone's liking. 22 Snow and ice withstood fire without melting, so that they might know that the crops of their enemies were being destroyed by the fire that blazed in the hail and flashed in the showers of rain; 23 whereas the fire, in order that the righteous might be fed, even forgot its native power. 24 For creation, serving you who made it, exerts itself to punish the unrighteous, and in kindness relaxes on behalf of those who trust in you.
Date: 100-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Wisdom of Solomon 16:20‐23 does not only use Psalm 77:24‐25 LXX, but also reworks other biblical traditions about the manna - and this way exemplifies the image of the “food of angels.” According to Wisdom of Solomon 16:20b God “without effort” offers to his people “bread ready to eat” from heaven. While the statement of “bread ready to eat” contradicts the ways of preparation mentioned in Exodus 16:13‐15 and Numbers 11:8, Exodus 16:13‐15 does not speak explicitly about the origin of the bread. The statement in the book of Wisdom - “from heaven” - might of course be due to developments as in Psalm 77:24 LXX. The small change can possibly be derived from the consideration that the food of heavenly creatures must be in heaven and therefore needs to be given from heaven ... The background of Wisdom of Solomon 16:20c is usually considered to lie in the fact that the Old Testament provides several descriptions of the manna (see, for example, Exodus 16:4, 14, 31 LXX and Numbers 11:7 LXX) ..."
Nicklas, Tobias
"'Food of Angels' (Wis 16:20)" in Xeravits, Géza G., and József Zsengellér (eds.) Studies in the Book of Wisdom
(pp. 83-100) Brill, 2010
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