Garlic Stinketh
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leek, and the onions, and the garlick . The Hebrew word for Garlic (Old King James: Garlick, love the KJV) is Shuwm (shoom). It is from an unused root meaning to exhale; garlic (from its rank odor):--garlic. As George D'Oyly & Richard Mant penned in their early 1800's Commentary on the Bible, these foods were very typical of the lowest class in Egypt (that would be the Jews) during the time of the Israelite slavery. From their work: The Holy Bible According to the Authorized Version: With Notes, Explanatory and Practical ; Taken Principally from the Most Eminent Writers of the United Church of England and Ireland, Together with Appropriate Introductions, Tables, Indexes, and Maps ( that is quite the mouthful, I have seen evangelistic tracks with less words and less intelligence ). Perhaps the Israelite diet of poverty-class Egyptian foods would be somewhat analogous ...