³ And the children of Israel said to them, ^(A)“Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, ^(B)when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

⁴ Now the ^(A)mixed multitude who were among them ^[a]yielded to ^(B)intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: ^(C)“Who will give us meat to eat?

³ And the people ^(A)contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died ^(B)when our brethren died before the Lord!

⁵ And the people ^(A)spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul ^[a]loathes this worthless bread.”