Melon

Melons appear once in scripture, named among the foods of Egypt that the wilderness generation longed for after their deliverance.

Remembered among the foods of Egypt

In the wilderness the people complain about the manna and recall the produce of Egypt: "We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic" (Num 11:5). The melon stands in a list of fresh, watery produce — cucumbers, leeks, onions, garlic — alongside the fish of the Nile. The complaint frames Egypt's bondage as a place of abundance to nostalgia and the wilderness as a place of monotony, even though Yahweh continues to feed them with manna.