21:5 we detest this miserable food! The people’s impatience (v. 4) led them to blaspheme God, to reject his servant Moses and to despise the bread from heaven. This is the most bitter of their several attacks on the manna (see note on 11:7). Just as Moses’ attack on the rock was more than it appeared to be (see note on 20:11), so the people’s contempt for the heavenly bread was more serious than one might think. Rejecting the heavenly manna was tantamount to spurning God’s grace (cf. Jn 6:32–35,