Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

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We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

In Context

4Some foreign people began to camp with Israel's descendants. They wanted better food to eat. Then the people of Israel began to weep and say, “Who will give us meat to eat?

6Now our appetite is gone, because all we can see is this manna.”

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Cross References

Psalms 17:14Rescue me from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of this world whose prosperity is in this life alone! 1 You will fill the bellies of your treasured ones with riches; they will have many children and will leave their wealth to their children. 1

Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction. For their god is their stomach, and their pride is in their shame. They think about earthly things.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →

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