Did the Israelites have anything to eat in the wilderness besides manna and quail?

 Where did the animals find food and water? Back then there may been a greater amount of rainfall and thus more vegetation in the wilderness.  Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, states that 3,500 years ago, the water supply in Arabia was to some extent superior to what it is at the present time.  The existence of many deep dry wadis, or valleys, which were once riverbeds, gives evidence that at some time in the past there was sufficient rainfall to produce streams of water." Even so, the wilderness was a barren and fearsome place. (Deuteronomy 8:14-16) Without the water that Jehovah miraculously provided, both the Israelites and their animals would surely have perished. - EXODUS 15:22-25; 17:1-6; NUMBERS 20:2, 11.

Moses told the Israelites that Jehovah had fed them with the manna "in order to make [them] know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every expression and word from Jehovah's mouth. 

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