And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
They had bread for a month, and when it ran out, despair set in at once, as if the God who parted the Red Sea could not feed them in the desert. They charge Moses with malice when he acted by God's command for their good. The best actions get the worst colors put upon them, and people wish themselves back in bondage rather than trust the invisible hand that saved them.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 16:1-12
And Moses said, this shall be,.... Which supplement may be left out: when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat; cause the quails to come up, and fall about their tents: and in the morning bread to the full; by raining it from heaven all around them: for that, or rather "then" (k): the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur...
And Moses said, [This shall be], when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD. (e) He that condemns God's ministers, condemns God himself.