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A frustrated man addresses Moses beside an empty food basket.
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Exodus 16:3

The Pots of Meat

Hunger in the wilderness · Exodus 16

Story guide: Israel recalls Egypt’s meat and bread and accuses the brothers of bringing the assembly into the wilderness to starve.

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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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