Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageWe remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt—and it cost us nothing! The cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, the garlic—
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GWe remember the fish we ate freely in Mitzrayim—the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
KJV
King James VersionWe remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWe remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
Footnotes
The word *ḥinnām* ('freely/for nothing') is savagely ironic: Israel ate these foods as slaves. Their memory has been rewritten by appetite, erasing the whip for the menu. The specific list—cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic—is historically grounded in Egyptian agricultural records. FOG renders *ḥinnām* as 'freely' to let the irony land quietly; FOG Message renders it as the exclamation 'it cost us nothing!' to make the absurdity visceral and immediate.
