His saying, the Almighty: "And when you said, O Moses, we will never be patient with one food," up to "and its onions." Qatada said: When Allah sent down to them the manna and the quails in the wilderness, they became weary of it and recalled the life they once had in Egypt. So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said to them: "Would you exchange what is better for what is less? Go down into a city (misran)," meaning: any city among the cities, "and indeed, you will have what you have asked for." Al-Kalbi said: "Go down into Egypt (Misra)" without an alif, meaning: Egypt itself. Qatada said: And the fum (garlic) is the grain that people bake. "And humiliation and poverty were stamped upon them," meaning: the jizya (poll tax).