Wisdom 16:3
Good News Translation
You did all this so that the idolaters, when they were hungry, would be unable to eat because of the disgusting creatures sent to them. Your people, however, suffered hunger only a short while, and then they ate the finest food.

New Revised Standard Version
in order that those people, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while your people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies.

Contemporary English Version
You did these things, so that when those Egyptians were hungry, they would feel sick and lose their appetites, because they would have to eat the horrible meat of snakes. However, after suffering for a while, your own people enjoyed the best of foods.

New American Bible
So that those others, when they desired food, should lose their appetite even for necessities, since the creatures sent to plague them were so loathsome, While these, after a brief period of privation, partook of a novel dish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

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To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Wisdom 16:4
For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

Wisdom 16:5
For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.

Context
Wisdom 16
2Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat: 3To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat. 4For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.…
Cross References
Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Wisdom 16:4
For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

Wisdom 16:5
For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:2
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