Numbers 11:5

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We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

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  • Exod 16:3 : 3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, where we sat by pots of meat and ate bread until we were full! But you brought us into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger."
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 By your hand, Lord, save me from people of this world whose reward is in this life. Fill their bellies with what you have stored up; let their children be satisfied, and let them leave their wealth to their little ones.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 11:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna!

    7The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.

    8The people went around gathering it, ground it in handmills or crushed it in mortars, cooked it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a cake baked with the richness of oil.

    9When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

  • Num 11:4
    78%

    4The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat?

  • Exod 16:3
    72%

    3The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, where we sat by pots of meat and ate bread until we were full! But you brought us into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger."

  • Num 21:5
    70%

    5The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!'

  • Num 11:20-22
    3 verses
    69%

    20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’

    21But Moses said, 'Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and You say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month’?

    22Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Or if all the fish in the sea were gathered for them, would that be enough?'

  • Num 11:18
    69%

    18Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ Now the LORD will give you meat to eat, and you will eat it.

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness, for us and our livestock to die here?

    5Why did you bring us up from Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

  • Exod 16:8
    68%

    8And Moses added, "The LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because He has heard your complaints against Him. But who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD."

  • Num 11:13
    68%

    13Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep crying to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

  • Exod 16:31-32
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    68%

    31The house of Israel named it manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

    32Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept for future generations so that they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

  • Num 20:15
    67%

    15Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13Isn't it enough that you brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also lord it over us?

    14What's more, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you intend to gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!"

  • Exod 16:15-16
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    15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

    16This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each person is to gather as much as they need to eat. Take an omer for each person according to the number of people in your tent.'

  • Deut 1:25
    66%

    25Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it back to us. And they reported, 'The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good.'

  • Exod 17:3
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    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Acts 7:11
    66%

    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    66%

    29They also brought honey, butter, sheep, and cheese from cattle for David and the people with him to eat. They said, 'The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.'

  • Josh 9:11-12
    2 verses
    66%

    11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’

    12This bread of ours was warm when we took it as provisions from our houses on the day we set out to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbled.

  • Num 14:2-3
    2 verses
    66%

    2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole community said to them, "If only we had died in Egypt or in this wilderness!

    3Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • 2 Kgs 4:39
    65%

    39One of them went out into the field to gather herbs. He found a wild vine and picked some of its gourds, filling his garment. He returned, cut them up, and put them in the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

  • Josh 5:11-12
    2 verses
    65%

    11The day after the Passover, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain on that very day.

    12The manna ceased the day after they ate from the produce of the land. There was no more manna for the Israelites, and that year they ate from the yield of the land of Canaan.

  • John 6:31
    65%

    31'Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."'

  • Deut 1:27
    65%

    27You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'

  • Exod 15:24
    65%

    24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, 'What are we to drink?'

  • Lam 5:6
    65%

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Num 13:27
    65%

    27They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed it flows with milk and honey. Here is its fruit.

  • Exod 16:12
    64%

    12"I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.'"

  • Exod 5:21
    64%

    21They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Neh 5:2
    64%

    2Some were saying, 'We, along with our sons and daughters, are numerous. Let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.'

  • Num 11:33
    64%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague.

  • Exod 12:33
    64%

    33The Egyptians pressured the people to send them out of the land quickly, for they said, 'We are all going to die!'

  • Job 30:4
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    4They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16You saw their detestable things and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold that were among them.