Numbers 21:5
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and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
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They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”