Numbers 11:5

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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:

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Egypt was the land where Israel had lived in slavery before the exodus, located northeast of the wilderness through which they were now traveling. In this complaint, the people nostalgically remembered Egypt’s food while overlooking the bondage from which the Lord had delivered them.

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Numbers 11:5 mentions Egypt.

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