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Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

Was it like stone soup?

What was in the pot that made one remember this food even after eating manna?

FLESH-POT

flesh'-pot (cir ha-basar, "pot of the flesh"): One of the six kinds of cooking utensils spoken of as pots or pans or caldrons or basins. Probably usually made of bronze or earthenware. The only mention of flesh-pots, specifically so named, is in Ex 16:3.
See FOOD.
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'FLESH-POT'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

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Posted by becauseHElives (Member # 87) on :

Fleshpot

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

-- Exodus 16: 3 (KJV)
At first the Israelites welcomed their delivery from slavery in Egypt, but hunger in the wilderness isn't quite what they expected. As the previous verse puts it, "The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron," their deliverers. In retrospect, slavery doesn't seem so bad at all: at least the Israelites had their fill of the famous "flesh pots" of Egypt.

"Flesh pot" -- the phrase is from Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation -- refers to a large metal caldron used by luxuriating Egyptians to boil meat. For centuries writers used "flesh pot" exclusively with reference to this passage. And since the author of Exodus clearly looks askance at the Israelites' yearnings, the phrase has always signified decadent temptation. But it's only in this century that the "flesh" of "fleshpot" has come to mean human flesh, and the luxury become carnal. Those who wish to be more precise use the derivative term "sexpot," which gets right to the point.

Posted by Eden (Member # 5728) on :

Hello, dear brother WildB. What was in the flesh pots of Egypt?

The Jacob-Israelites lived in the land of Goshen during their entire stay in Hamite Misr Egypt.

And while in the land of Goshen, these Jacob-Israelites had their flocks with them:

Genesis 47:1
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, look, they are in the land of Goshen.

So the Jacob-Isrealites ate flesh like lambs from the sheep and they ate kids from the goats and if a camel died, they had a camel roast, all in the land of Goshen; they had their flocks to the very end.

And they also fished in the freshwater brooklets and lagoons of the Nile and they added leeks and garlic and it was hmmmmm good:

Numbers 11:5
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.

That, WildB, is what was in the flesh pots. Mix all that with that ultra delicious Nile water and it was, hmmmmm hmmmmm good.

with love in Him, I am,
Eden