When the Gentiles stir up the Israelites with grumbling about the food provided by the L-RD, provoking them to the point that they were all using selective memories of their lives as slaves to consider themselves better off than when they were in Egypt, because at least they had a variety of food to eat there, the L-RD responds to their longing for meat in a massive way.
Moses complains to the L-RD about the burdens of being responsible for so many people, and the L-RD delivers a somewhat terse response. “They want meat? Fine! They’ll have it not just for a day or two, but for a whole month, until it’s coming out their nose and they grow sick of it.”
Not exactly a happy chef, our L-RD, eh? So when Moses asks where it’s all going to come from, He sends a flood of quail into the camp for the people to harvest… and while the food was still in their mouths, a plague struck that ended the lives of many.
A message about being content with whatever the L-RD has given us could be no clearer. Am I right?
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