17 Where are the benefits that I have given you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, didn’t you cry to me, (WEB) 18 saying, ‘Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to have served the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.’ (WEB) 19 I had pity on your mourning and gave you manna for food. You ate angels’ bread. (WEB)
2 Esdras 1:17–19
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