Unfortunately their meagre store of grain, dampened by the spray while they watched the Egyptians flail in the sea, began to spoil and stink, and the hungry men whined that Moses had brought them out of bondage only to let them starve in the wilderness. “I carried enough grain across that sea on my own back to feed a city. Anyway, the laws are very clear about what’s suitable.
It was unfamiliar, and anything unfamiliar was bound to be bad. The men had barely noticed the change in vegetation along the way, and what they saw, they didn’t like. “What is that stuff?” exclaimed the men, one by one, and in small family groups. This is one of the bits that didn’t make it into the book.)Īfter just a few weeks in the wilderness, the women began to observe the sparse vegetation along the wayside, looking for food to sustain their families on what was shaping up to be a lengthy journey. (an outtake from Once More, From the Beginning.
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