Pumpkin, melon
Pumkin and melon are important supplements of the daily food. From the seeds of the pumpkin one made a kind of coarse bread, or one mixed it with wheat flour in order to improve the taste of the bread. The fleshy pulp was used laxative. The honeydew melon with its refreshing pulp was especially popular as nourishment in the heat of the summer season
Num 11:5; 2 Kings 4:39–40
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