“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”
'We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic — the Egyptians' abundance contrasts with the manna-diet. The list of Egyptian foods (fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, garlic) emphasizes flavor diversity and satiety. Nostalgia for Egypt's culinary abundance reveals the people's forgetfulness of Egypt's bondage: they remember the food but suppress the memory of slavery. The ten-item list of remembered foods (if we include 'nothing,' the cost) suggests abundance and ease.
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