The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional formal protest handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal …

If only we had died... — The reference seems to be to the plague that broke out after the insurrection of Korah. The lang…

And the people chode with Moses
Contended with him in a wrangling and litigious manner, showing no reverence nor res…

After thirty-eight years of a tiresome stay in the wilderne , the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congre…