³ The sons of Israel said to them, “^(A)Would that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, ^(B)when we sat by the pots of ^[a]meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

⁴ The ^(A)rabble who were among them ^[a]had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “^(B)Who will give us ^[b]meat to eat? ^5 (C)We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, ⁶ but now ^(D)our ^[c]appetite is gone. There is nothing at all ^[d]to look at except this manna.”