But the people thirsted there for water and grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you ever bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? ”
“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge? #— #this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger! ”
“May the Lord take note of you and judge,” they said to them, “because you have made us reek to Pharaoh and his officials #— #putting a sword in their hand to kill us! ”
All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
but for a whole month #— #until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you #— #because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and wept before him, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt? ’ ”