Three things:

[ciroccoj]

1. My twelve-year-old just used the word "disparate" in conversation. ?!
   
2. The Israelites were a bit... whiny, in Exodus. Rescued from servitude in Egypt, Egyptians drowned, led into the wilderness, given manna to eat... and still whining "We should've stayed in Egypt, at least there we had water."
   
3. I think manna was lembas bread: And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Comments

[naatz.livejournal.com]

ummm. Re:2: ......they weren't whiney. They were just taken from their home, have slave mentality {who will take care of us nooooooow?}, were chased, had to suffer a few of those problems along with the Egyptians, have no water, eat the same thing every day for 50 years, and have to keep walking.

Dude, I'd whine for less.

|Meduza|

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

::grumble:: All right, fine, yeah, maybe ;)

Still. Exodus doesn't make them sound oppressed so much as... bratty. The King James version, anyway.