³ The sons of Israel said to them, “^(A)If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, ^(B)when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread until we were full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger!”

⁴ Now the ^(A)rabble who were among them ^[a]had greedy cravings; and the sons of Israel also wept again and said, “^(B)Who will give us ^[b]meat to eat? ^5 (C)We remember the fish which we used to eat for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, 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!”