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1 The
people were complaining
in the ears of
the LORD. When
the LORD heard
it, his anger
burned; and the
LORD’s fire burned
among them, and
consumed some of
the outskirts of
the camp.
2 The
people cried to
Moses; and Moses
prayed to the
LORD, and the fire
abated.
3 The
name of that
place was called
Taberah,
because the LORD’s
fire burned among
them.
4 The mixed
multitude that was
among them lusted
exceedingly; and
the children of
Israel also wept
again, and said, “Who
will give us
meat to eat?
5 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;
6 but
now we have lost
our appetite.
There is nothing
at all except
this manna to
look at.”
7 The
manna was like
coriander seed,
and it looked
like bdellium.
8 The
people went around,
gathered it, and
ground it in
mills, or beat
it in mortars, and
boiled it in pots,
and made cakes
of it. Its
taste was like
the taste of
fresh oil.
9 When
the dew fell
on the camp
in the night,
the manna fell
on it.
10 Moses
heard the people
weeping throughout
their families,
every man at the
door of his tent;
and the LORD’s
anger burned greatly;
and Moses was
displeased.
11 Moses said
to the LORD, “Why
have you treated
your servant so
badly? Why haven’t
I found favor
in your sight,
that you lay
the burden of
all this people
on me?
12 Have
I conceived all
this people? Have
I brought them
out, that you
should tell me, ‘Carry
them in your
bosom, as a
nurse carries a
nursing infant, to
the land which you
swore to their
fathers’?
13 Where
could I get meat
to give all
these people? For
they weep before
me, saying, ‘Give
us meat, that
we may eat.’
14 I am
not able to
bear all this
people alone,
because it is
too heavy for
me.
15 If
you treat me
this way, please
kill me right
now, if I
have found favor
in your sight;
and don’t let me
see my
wretchedness.”
16 The
LORD said to Moses,
“Gather to me
seventy men of
the elders of
Israel, whom you
know to be
the elders of
the people and
officers over them;
and bring them
to the Tent of
Meeting, that they
may stand there
with you.
17 I
will come down
and talk with
you there. I
will take of
the Spirit which
is on you,
and will put
it on them;
and they shall
bear the burden
of the people
with you, that
you don’t bear it
yourself alone.
18 “Say to
the people, ‘Sanctify
yourselves in preparation
for tomorrow, and
you will eat meat;
for you have
wept in the ears
of the LORD,
saying, “Who will
give us meat
to eat? For it
was well with
us in Egypt.”
Therefore the LORD
will give you
meat, and you
will eat.
19 You
will not eat just
one day, or
two days, or
five days, or
ten days, or
twenty days,
20 but
a whole month,
until it comes
out at
your nostrils, and
it is loathsome
to you; because
you have rejected
the LORD who
is among you,
and have wept
before him, saying, “Why
did we come
out of Egypt?” ’ ”
21 Moses said,
“The people, among
whom I am, are
six hundred thousand
men on foot;
and you have said,
‘I will give
them meat, that
they may eat a
whole month.’
22 Shall
flocks and herds
be slaughtered for
them, to be
sufficient for
them? Shall all
the fish of
the sea be gathered
together for them,
to be sufficient
for them?”
23 The
LORD said to
Moses, “Has the
LORD’s hand grown
short? Now you
will see whether
my word will
happen to you
or not.”
24 Moses
went out, and
told the people
the LORD’s words;
and he gathered
seventy men of
the elders of
the people, and
set them around
the Tent.
25 The
LORD came down
in the cloud,
and spoke to
him, and took
of the Spirit
that was on
him, and put
it on the
seventy elders.
When the Spirit
rested on them,
they prophesied,
but they did
so no more.
26 But
two men remained
in the camp.
The name of
one was Eldad, and
the name of
the other Medad;
and the Spirit
rested on them.
They were of
those who were
written, but had
not gone out
to the Tent; and
they prophesied in
the camp.
27 A
young man ran,
and told Moses,
and said, “Eldad and
Medad are
prophesying in the
camp!”
28 Joshua
the son of
Nun, the servant
of Moses, one
of his chosen men,
answered, “My lord
Moses, forbid
them!”
29 Moses said
to him, “Are
you jealous for
my sake? I
wish that all
the LORD’s people
were prophets,
that the LORD
would put his
Spirit on them!”
30 Moses
went into the
camp, he and
the elders of
Israel.
31 A
wind from the
LORD went out
and brought quails
from the sea,
and let them fall
by the camp,
about a day’s
journey on this
side, and a
day’s journey on
the other side,
around the camp,
and about
two cubits
above the surface
of the earth.
32 The
people rose up
all that day,
and all of
that night, and
all the next
day, and gathered
the quails. He
who gathered least
gathered ten
homers;
and they spread
them all out
for themselves around
the camp.
33 While
the meat was
still between their
teeth, before it
was chewed, the
LORD’s anger burned
against the people,
and the LORD
struck the people
with a very
great plague.
34 The
name of that
place was
called Kibroth Hattaavah,
because there they
buried the people
who lusted.
35 From Kibroth
Hattaavah the people
traveled to
Hazeroth; and
they stayed at
Hazeroth.