Seventy Elders Help Moses

⁴ Some ·troublemakers [rabble; foreign elements] among them wanted better food, and soon all the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] began ·complaining [^Lweeping]. They said, “We want meat! ⁵ We remember the fish we ate for free in Egypt. We also had cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. ⁶ But now we have lost our ·appetite [or vitality; strength]; we never see anything but this manna [Ex. 16:1–36]!”