 | Stephen Greenblatt - 1993 - 378 pages
...was among them, fell a lusting, and turned themselves and wept (as did also the children of Israel) and said, who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, and the cucumbers, and melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. But now our soul is dried away: for we can... | |
 | Allan A. Swenson - 1995 - 252 pages
...should consider Burpless. It is an aptly named, easily digestible variety worth trying. MELONS "... which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons . . ." Numbers 11:5 There are those who have studied the scriptures who say categorically that the... | |
 | Colin Spencer - 1996 - 420 pages
...the taste of fresh oil.'60 They still felt the loss of meat: 'And the mixed multitude fell a-lusting and the children of Israel also wept again and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat?"'61 All this so angered God that he sent them another great multitude of quails but this time... | |
 | Louis Arthur Berman - 1997 - 292 pages
...went up also with them" (Exodus 12:38). "And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?" (Numbers 11:4). 5. George E. Mendenhall "The Hebrew Conquest," The Tenth Generation, 107. 6. Archaeologists... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1997 - 206 pages
...Egyptian bondage, rather than restrain the craving of a depraved appetite, "fell a lusting" for flesh: "The children of Israel also wept again, and said. Who shall give us flesh to eat?"—Num. ll:4. They got flesh to eat: "There went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1998 - 452 pages
...when we sat by the flesh pots (Ex. 16:3). And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . . There is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes (Num. 1 1 :4, 6). And they ate the... | |
 | G. R. Clements - 1998 - 322 pages
...depressing bondage, rather than restrain the craving of a depraved appetite, "fell a lusting" for flesh: — The children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to cat? (Num. 11:4). And they got flesh: — There went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails... | |
 | Kenneth T. Farrell - 1998 - 440 pages
...refers to the children of Israel complaining to Moses about not having anything to eat except manna: “We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, the melons and the leek, and the onions, and the garlick.” In Gerard's General History of Plants... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...not been located. 109 one of those fruits . . . name of abbattichim: A reference to Numbers 1 1:5, "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the mel324 ons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick." The Hebrew word for melons is usually... | |
 | Frank W. Hoffmann, Martin Manning - 2002 - 262 pages
...liberated from their Egyptian captivity by Moses, the Hebrews complained on more than one occasion: "we remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely;...cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions ..." (Numbers 1 1:5, Old Testament). The Roman historian Pliny wrote that the Egyptians were known... | |
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LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give... 
