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Complaints About the Food

The foreign rabble who were among the Israelites were overcome by their craving. The Israelites also wept once again and said, “Who is going to give us meat to eat? We remember the fish we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our lives are wasting away.[a] We have nothing at all to look at except this manna.”

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  1. Numbers 11:6 Literally our soul has dried up, or we have lost our appetite, or our throat is dry