﻿Numbers.
Chapter 11.
The people complained bitterly in the LORD's hearing. The LORD heard it, and his anger burned. The fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed the edge of the camp. 
The people cried out to Moses. Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. 
That place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them. 
The rabble among them had an intense craving, and the Israelites also began weeping again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? 
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 
But now our soul is dried up. There is nothing at all; our eyes see only the manna.” 
The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium. 
The people went about and gathered it, ground it in mills or pounded it in a mortar, cooked it in a pot, and made cakes from it. Its taste was like that of a delicacy made with oil. 
When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down on it. 
Moses heard the people weeping by their families, each at the entrance of his tent. The LORD's anger burned fiercely, and Moses was displeased. 
Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant badly? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a caregiver carries a nursing child, to the land you swore to their ancestors’? 
Where am I to get meat to give all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat.’ 
I cannot carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. 
If this is how you will treat me, please kill me outright, if I have found favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.” 
The LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders of the people and their officers. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand there with you. 
I will come down and speak with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They shall carry the burden of the people with you, so that you do not carry it alone. 
Tell the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat. For you have wept in the LORD's hearing and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? We were well off in Egypt!” The LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. 
You shall eat not for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, 
but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes repulsive 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?”’” 
Moses said, “The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand men on foot, yet you have said, ‘I will give them meat, and they shall eat for a whole month.’ 
If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would that be enough for them? If all the fish of the sea were gathered for them, would that be enough for them?” 
The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD's hand grown short? Now you shall see whether my word will come to pass for you or not.” 
Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He gathered seventy men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent. 
The LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him. He took of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy men, the elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again. 
Two men had remained in the camp. One was named Eldad and the other Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered but had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp. 
A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!” 
Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant from his youth, answered, “My lord Moses, stop them!” 
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!” 
Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 
A wind went out from the LORD and swept quail in from the sea, spreading them around the camp, about a day's journey on one side and about a day's journey on the other, all around the camp, and about three feet above the surface of the ground. 
The people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, gathering the quail. The one who gathered least gathered about fifty bushels, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 
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. 
That place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat. 
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth. 
