“And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!”
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, 'If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!' — the grumbling (yilonenu) against Moses and Aaron inverts the wilderness journey's narrative: Egypt, where God brought plagues, becomes preferable to the promised land; the wilderness, the place of God's miraculous provision, becomes a place of longed-for death.
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