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2 Then the people acried out to Moses, and when Moses bprayed to the Lord, the fire was1 quenched.  
3 So he called the name of the place1 Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.  
4 Now the amixed multitude who were among them1 yielded to bintense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: c“Who will give us meat to eat?  
5 aWe remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;  
6 but now aour whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”  
7 Now athe manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.  
8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and aits taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.  
9 And awhen the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.  
10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and athe anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.  
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To govern these free people was a tremendous burden for Moses because they weren't free of their slave mentality. They still thought like slaves. They kept rebelling to the extent that they YEARNED to go back to the bondage that they had YEARNED to come out of just a short time before.

What is interesting is that the problem on the surface here had to do with their diet. But that wasn't the real problem. The contrast, as God presents it, was between what was to them a plain and bland diet as compared to the rich and stimulating diet that they were accustomed to in Egypt. They wanted to be stimulated, but they didn't realize—because they were still thinking like slaves—that their tastes were entirely perverted, even their tastes in terms of food. What they were doing in despising the LORD was actually accusing Him—the One who made them—of not knowing any better what they needed to face the rigors of their life in the wilderness.

Excerpted from Freedom and Unleavened Bread

Numbers 11:4-8

Sounds like pretty good stuff to me. But they wanted variety and so they complained about what God provided them. Later on in the Psalms manna is called angel’s food. Man did eat angel’s food.

Excerpted from How to Combat Future Shock

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