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And when the people
complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord
heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire
of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them
that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
02 And the people cried unto Moses; and
when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was
quenched.
03 And he called the name of the place
Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among
them.
04 And the mixed multitude that was among
them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel
also wept again, and said, Who shall give us
flesh to eat?
05 We remember the fish, which we did eat
in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons,
and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
06 But now our soul is dried away: there is
nothing at all, beside this manna, before our
eyes.
07 And the manna was as coriander seed, and
the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
08 And the people went about, and gathered
it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a
mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of
it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh
oil.
09 And when the dew fell upon the camp in
the night, the manna fell upon it.
10 Then Moses heard the people weep
throughout their families, every man in the door
of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was
kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore
hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore
have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou
layest the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I
begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me,
Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father
beareth the sucking child, unto the land which
thou swarest unto their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto
all this people? for they weep unto me, saying,
Give us flesh, that we may eat.
14 I am not able to bear all this people
alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me,
I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour
in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather
unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom
thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, that they may
stand there with thee.
17 And I will come down and talk with thee
there: and I will take of the spirit which is
upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they
shall bear the burden of the people with thee,
that thou bear it not thyself alone.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat
flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord,
saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord
will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
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19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days,
nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
20 But even a whole month, until it come
out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto
you: because that ye have despised the Lord which
is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I
am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou
hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may
eat a whole month.
22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain
for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish
of the sea be gathered together for them, to
suffice them?
23 And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the
Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now
whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or
not.
24 And Moses went out, and told the people
the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy
men of the elders of the people, and set them
round about the tabernacle.
25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and
spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was
upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders:
and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested
upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
26 But there remained two of the men in the
camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name
of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon
them; and they were of them that were written,
but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they
prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told
Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in
the camp.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
of Moses, one of his young men, answered and
said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou
for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people
were prophets, and that the Lord would put his
spirit upon them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and
the elders of Israel.
31 And there went forth a wind from the
Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let
them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey
on this side, and as it were a day's journey on
the other side, round about the camp, and as it
were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
32 And the people stood up all that day,
and all that night, and all the next day, and
they gathered the quails: he that gathered least
gathered ten homers: and they spread them all
abroad for themselves round about the camp.
33 And while the flesh was yet between
their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the
Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord
smote the people with a very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place
Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the
people that lusted.
35 And the people journeyed from
Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at
Hazeroth.
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