³ And the sons of Israel said to them, “^(A)Would that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, ^(B)when we sat by the pots of ^[a]meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to put this whole assembly to death with hunger.”

⁴ And the ^(A)rabble who were among them ^[a]had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “^(B)Who will give us ^[b]meat to eat? ^5 (C)We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, ⁶ but now ^(D)our ^[c]appetite is dried up. There is nothing at all ^[d]to look at except this manna.”