Complaints about Food

Contemptible people[a] among them(A) had a strong craving(B) for other food. The Israelites cried again and said, “Who will feed us meat? We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,(C) along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:4 Or The mixed multitude; Hb obscure

Quail From the Lord

The rabble with them began to crave other food,(A) and again the Israelites started wailing(B) and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.(C)

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ט Tet

Those slain by the sword are better off
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.

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Those killed by the sword are better off
    than those who die of famine;(A)
racked with hunger, they waste away
    for lack of food from the field.(B)

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