OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 11:6

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but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

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Verse 6. Dry, like people quite worn out for want of food. Psalms 101:5. 12. Lamen. 4:8.—Nothing. An exaggeration. We are disgusted with this light food. Calmet.—They wished not only for the taste, but also for the colour, of other meats. Menochius.—How often do we imitate their folly, when we are disgusted with the bread of life! Bible.

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