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The bread came down every morning, so the camp went looking for something else to be angry about. They made sure their voices carried upward.
When the dew lifted, Israel found scale-like bread whose letters count to 248 limbs, angel-ground food that left no waste in the body.
Thirst and graves turned the camp against the road out of Egypt. God answered that the desert had been a palace, not a wasteland.
The carriers felt the poles bite before the camp had packed. Three days of empty road opened in front of the gold.
On the fourteenth, only Levi walked a lamb toward the ropes. The rest of the camp scraped dough and let the day pass like sand.
A serpent tastes dust in everything it eats. Israel tasted whatever they liked in the manna and sneered anyway, so God sent the serpent to collect.
Moses, who once walked the brick yards urging Israel not to break, draws a circle and refuses to step out until God shortens Miriam's shame.
Every morning Moses took the middle of the path to the Tent. One day he stepped to the right and set Aaron where the camp would have to look.
Moses went back to the mountain that had smoked for him. He asked it to speak. The ridge remembered fire and would not go near God again.
A man reached for his brother's wrist in the dark and it did not close. They buried the unwilling before Egypt could see the graves.
The child kicked hard enough to stop her. Dust on her tongue. Then a voice in empty air named the boy before she had a midwife.
