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Some foreign people were travelling with the Israelites.[a] Those people wanted very much to eat better food. So the Israelites wept again. They said, ‘We want meat to eat! We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt. We had as much as we wanted. And we remember all the nice vegetables, cucumbers, leeks, onions and garlic. And we remember the melons. But now our mouths are dry and we do not want to eat this food. There is not even anything to look at, except this manna.’

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  1. 11:4 When the Israelites left Egypt, some foreign people came with them. We do not know why these foreign people came with them. Perhaps some of them were slaves.