Numbers 11:4-5

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Complaints about Food

⁴The riffraff^[a] among them^(A) had a strong craving^(B) for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat? ⁵We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,^(C) along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

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Footnotes

11:4 Or The mixed multitude; Hb obscure

Lamentations 4:9

Christian Standard Bible

ט Teth

⁹Those slain by the sword are better off
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.

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