““If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!””
Exodus 16:3
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Connection with Esau's hunger
Israel's complaint here sounds like Esau, who sold his birthright when he was hungry: a whole people spoke Esau's sentence in the desert. Moses later told them what God was teaching them with the manna, "that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD" (Deuteronomy 8:3).
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