And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Modern travelers through the desert of Sinai are accustomed to take as much as is sufficient for the sustenance of people and animals during 40 days. The Israelites having been rather more than a month on their journey, their store of grain or other provisions was altogether or nearly exhausted; and there being no prospect of procuring any means of subsistence in the desert, except some wild olives and wild honey (Deuteronomy 32:13), loud complaints were made against their leaders So completely had their minds become debased by their hard servitude that they considered the freedom and independence of their present condition, together with the special honour and privilege of being under God's special guidance, dearly purchased by the sacrifice of the sensual comforts which Egypt supplied. They had become a servile race, strangers to high and generous sentiments, anxious only about the supply of their bodily needs, and through the engrossing influence of these displaying utter indifference or contempt for the grace which had distinguished them above all other peoples.