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saying, `Why hast thou led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.'
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You have not exulted in my name at the destruction of your enemies, but to this day you still complain.
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Where are the benefits which I bestowed on you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry out to me,
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saying, `Why hast thou led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.'
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I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of angels.
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When you were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock so that waters flowed in abundance? Because of the heat I covered you with the leaves of trees.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.