## Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Chukat

###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Chukat 44:1
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וידבר העם באלהים ובמשה (שם כא ה). השוו עבד לקונו.

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
(Numb. 21:5:) AND THE PEOPLE SPOKE AGAINST GOD AND AGAINST MOSES. They made a slave comparable to his buyer.


###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Chukat 44:2
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ונפשנו קצה בלחם הקלוקל (שם). שלא היה אותו הדור יכול לטעום מפירות הארץ כלום, אמר ר"ע כשהיו מגלין להם תגרין [הסל] מן פירות הארץ היו מתים, שנאמר אם יראו האנשים וגו' (במדבר לב יא), כל טוב הבא מחמת הארץ, לכך כתיב ותקצר נפש העם בדרך (שם כא ד).

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
(Numb. 21:5:) OUR SOUL LOATHES THIS MISERABLE FOOD, for that generation was unable to taste any of the fruits of the land. R. Aqiva said: When merchants disclosed to them [a basket] with some fruits of the land, they died. It is so stated (in Numb. 32:11): SURELY NONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME UP FROM EGYPT, FROM TWENTY YEARS AND UP, SHALL SEE THE LAND WHICH I PROMISED ON OATH TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB, i.e., any good that comes because of the land. It is therefore written (in Numb. 21:6): BUT THE PEOPLE'S TEMPER GREW SHORT ON THE WAY.