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1 The people were complaining in the ears of Jehovah.
When Jehovah heard it, his anger burned; and Jehovah’s fire burnt among them,
and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2 The people cried to
Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah, and the fire abated. 3 The name of
that place was called Taberah, because Jehovah’s fire burnt 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 flesh 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
its appearance like the appearance of 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 Jehovah’s anger burned
greatly; and Moses was displeased. 11 Moses said to Jehovah, “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 to all this people? For
they weep to 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 Jehovah 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 not bear it yourself alone.
18 “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Jehovah,
saying, “Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.”
Therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and you will eat. 19 You will not
eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but
a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you;
because that you have rejected Jehovah 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 flesh,
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 Jehovah said to Moses, “Has Jehovah’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 Jehovah’s
words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them
around the Tent. 25 Jehovah 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; and 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 Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put
his Spirit on them!”
30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of
Israel. 31 A wind from Jehovah 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 flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was
chewed, Jehovah’s anger burned against the people, and Jehovah 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.
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