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Exodus 16:3Exod.16.3

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Les enfants d'Israël leur dirent: Que ne sommes-nous morts par la main de l'Eternel dans le pays d'Egypte, quand nous étions assis près des pots de viande, quand nous mangions du pain à satiété? car vous nous avez menés dans ce désert pour faire mourir de faim toute cette multitude.

KJV

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)

    ndi. Monemur etiam ut non concupiscamus quemadmodum illi Aegypti reminiscentes propter esum carnium (Exod. XVI, 3) , ne pariter pereamus, neque idololatrae efficiamur. Commemorat enim Apostolus illum locum ubi Moyses montem Sinai ascendens, cum populus erga montem remansisset, pr…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 152 (Migne)

    ignem ad modum columnae ut luceret eis per noctem, ne alicubi offenderent, et tunc petierunt escas (Exod. XVI, 3) , et sponte sine labore inquisitionis venit coturnix innumerabilis, cadens in medio castrorum (Ibid., 13) , et [Col. 1196A] saturavit eos pane coeli, id est manna d…
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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 171 (Migne)

    ma veritate, sunt qui fastidio hujus panis affecti dicunt: «Revertamur in Aegyptum ad ollas carnium (Exod. XVI, 3) ,» id est ad saeculares scripturas nostrum applicemus studium. Qui autem non deficiunt, proficiscuntur, et tandem ad Jordanem perveniunt, qui est prope terram promis…

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