◄ Numbers 11:6 ►
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Good News Translation
But now our strength is gone. There is nothing at all to eat--nothing but this manna day after day!" (

New Revised Standard Version
but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”

Contemporary English Version
But we're starving out here, and the only food we have is this manna."

New American Bible
But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but this manna.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.

Numbers 21:5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

2 Samuel 13:4 And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.

Context
The Complaints of the People
…5We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. 6Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.7Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:5
And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Jeremiah 44:18
But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out frank offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine.

Numbers 11:5
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