Numbers 11:5 (BSB)

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

From Numbers 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 11:5

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 11:5: 5. We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt. By this comparison with the former mode of living, they depreciate the present grace of God: and yet they enumerate no delicacies, when they speak of leeks, and onions, and garlic.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 11:4-15: These verses represent things sadly unhinged and out of order in Israel, both the people and the prince uneasy. I. Here is the people fretting, and speaking against God himself (as it is interpreted, Psa 78:19), notwithstanding his glorious appearances both to them and for them. Observe, 1. Who were the criminals. (1.) The mixed multitude began, they fell a lusting, Num 11:4.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 11:5: We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely,.... Fish was food the Egyptians much lived upon; for though Herodotus says the priests might not taste of fish, the common people ate much; yea, he himself says that some lived upon nothing else but fish gutted and dried in the sun; and he observes, that the kings of Egypt had a great revenue...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 11:5: We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely--(See on Exo 7:17). The people of Egypt are accustomed to an almost exclusive diet of fish, either fresh or sun-dried, during the hot season in April and May--the very season when the Israelites were travelling in this desert.