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Exodus 16:1-3. Hunger in the wilderness. Hungry Hebrew families gather around nearly empty food baskets at a barren wilderness camp, a frustrated adult addresses Moses and Aaron. Both leaders match canonical references. No palm oasis, no manna or quail yet, expressive but dignified distress. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 16:1-3

Hunger in the wilderness

Story guide: After leaving Elim, the people complain to Moses and Aaron about hunger in the wilderness of Sin.

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1They set out from Elim, and the whole congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had gone out from the land of Egypt.

2And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

3And the sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

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