Melon

Melons were among the cool, juicy foods the Israelites remembered fondly from their years in Egypt, grown along the irrigated Nile delta where water was never scarce. Their absence in the wilderness became a recurring complaint against the plain diet of manna.

• “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”

  Numbers 11:5

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