Numbers 11:7
A Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.
Challoner: BdelliumBdellium, according to Pliny, 1. 21, c. 9. was of the colour of a man's nail, white and bright.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erat autem man quasi semen coriandri, coloris bdellii.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸ δὲ μάννα ὡσεὶ σπέρμα κορίου ἐστίν, καὶ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ εἶδος κρυστάλλου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהַמָּ֕ן כִּזְרַע גַּ֖ד ה֑וּא וְעֵינ֖וֹ כְּעֵ֥ין הַבְּדֹֽלַח
Haydock's commentary
Bdellium. Bdellium, according to Pliny, ([Natural History?] lib. xxi. chap. 9,) was of the colour of a man's nail, white and bright; (Challoner) or like wax, ([Natural History?] lib. xii. 9,) between white and yellow. It might resemble a tarnished pearl or ivory in colour, and coriander-seed in shape.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.