Bible Verses

Where would I get meat for all these people when they cry to me saying: ‘Give us meat that we may eat?’

Did I conceive all these people and give them birth? And now you want me to carry them in my bosom as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their fathers?

Moses asked the Lord, “Why have you mistreated your servant? Is it because you do not love me that you burdened me with these people?

Moses heard the people crying, family by family, at the entrance to their tent, and the Lord became outraged. This displeased Moses:

As soon as the dew fell at night in the camp, the manna came with it.

The people gathered it up, ground it between millstones, or pounded it in a mortar. They boiled it in a pot and made cakes with it, which tasted like cakes made with oil.

The manna was like coriander seed and appeared like bdellium.

Now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but manna.”

We remember the fish we ate without cost in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and garlic.

Complaints Now the rabble that was among them had greedy desires, and even the Israelites wept and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?