Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?

"but now our whole being [is] dried up; [there is] nothing at all except this manna [before] our eyes!"

The people went about and gathered [it,] ground [it] on millstones or beat [it] in the mortar, cooked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.

"Then you shall say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For [it was] well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

'but [for] a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?" ' "

And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For [there is] no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread."

My soul refuses to touch them; They [are] as loathsome food to me.

"And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him [anything.]

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"