“But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.”
but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at' — the complaint invokes physical decline: 'our strength is dried up' (kaph naphshi yabelah), suggesting the manna-diet is nutritionally insufficient. The exclusive monotony ('nothing...but this manna') becomes oppressive. What was once 'the bread of the mighty' (Exod 16:4) is now resented as monotonous substance.
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