Numbers 11:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

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  • Exod 16:3 : 3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

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  • Num 11:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

    7Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

    8The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.

    9When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

  • Num 11:4
    78%

    4And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

  • Exod 16:3
    72%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • Num 21:5
    70%

    5And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

  • Num 11:20-22
    3 verses
    69%

    20But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

    21Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

    22Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

  • Num 11:18
    69%

    18And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

    5Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Exod 16:8
    68%

    8And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

  • Num 11:13
    68%

    13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

  • Exod 16:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.

    32And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

  • Num 20:15
    67%

    15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

    14And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • Exod 16:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

    16This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

  • Deut 1:25
    66%

    25And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Exod 17:3
    66%

    3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • Acts 7:11
    66%

    11Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    66%

    29And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

  • Josh 9:11-12
    2 verses
    66%

    11So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

    12This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

  • Num 14:2-3
    2 verses
    66%

    2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

    3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • 2 Kgs 4:39
    65%

    39And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.

  • Josh 5:11-12
    2 verses
    65%

    11And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

    12And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

  • John 6:31
    65%

    31Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

  • Deut 1:27
    65%

    27And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • Exod 15:24
    65%

    24And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

  • Lam 5:6
    65%

    6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • Num 13:27
    65%

    27And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

  • Exod 16:12
    64%

    12The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 5:21
    64%

    21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

  • Neh 5:2
    64%

    2For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

  • Num 11:33
    64%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

  • Exod 12:33
    64%

    33And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.

  • Job 30:4
    64%

    4They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

  • Deut 29:16
    64%

    16(For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;