Numbers 21:5 - Exposition

There is no bread, neither is there any water. The one of these statements was no doubt as much and as little true as the other. There was no ordinary supply of either; but as they had bread given to them from heaven, so they had water from the rock, otherwise they could not possibly have existed. Our soul loatheth this light bread. קְלקֵל , a stronger form than קַל from קָלַל . Septuagint, διακένῳ . They meant to say, as their fathers had ( Numbers 11:6 ), that it was unsavory and unsubstantial in comparison with the heavy and succulent diet of Egypt (see note on Numbers 20:3 ).