1 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.
2 And
the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was
quenched.
3 And
he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt
among them.
4 And
the mixt 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?
5 We
remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the
melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But
now our soul is dried
away: there is nothing
at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
7 And
the manna was as
coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
8 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.
9 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 to morrow, 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.
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.
