Numbers 11
11Eventually, as soon as the people began complaining about their distress, the Lord heard. When the Lord heard it, his anger flared up and the Lord's fire incinerated some of them within the outskirts of the camp.H5971H596H7451H241H3068H3068H8085H639H2734H784H3068H1197H398H7097H42642When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire stopped.H5971H6817H4872H4872H6419H3068H784H82573He then named that place Taberah, because the Lord's fire had incinerated some of them.H7121H8034H1931H4725H8404H784H3068H11974Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people had an insatiable appetite for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelites cried out, "If only somebody would feed us some meat!H628H7130H183H8378H1121H3478H1058H7725H559H1320H3985How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!H2142H1710H398H4714H2600H7180H20H2682H1211H77626But now we can't stand it any more, because there's nothing in front of us except this manna." 5H5315H3002H1115H4478H58697Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber.H4478H1407H2233H5869H5869H9168People would go out to gather it, then they would grind it in mills or pound it in mortars, and then they would boil it in pots or make cakes out of it that tasted like butter cakes.H5971H7751H3950H2912H7347H1743H4085H1310H6517H6213H5692H2940H2940H3955H80819When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it.H2919H3381H4264H3915H4478H338110Moses heard the people weeping throughout their entire families. Everyone gathered at the entrance of their tents so that the Lord was very angry. Moses thought the situation was bad,H4872H8085H5971H1058H4940H376H6607H168H639H3068H2734H3966H4872H7489H586911so he asked the Lord, "Why did you bring all this trouble to your servant - Why haven't I found favor in your eyes - After all, you're putting the burden of this entire people on me!H4872H559H3068H7489H5650H4672H2580H5869H7760H4853H597112"Did I conceive this people or give birth to them, so that you would tell me to carry them near my heart like a wet nurse carries a suckling baby to the land that you promised to their forefathers -H2029H5971H3205H559H5375H2436H539H5375H3243H127H7650H113Where am I going to get meat to give this people - After all, they're crying in front of me, 'Give us meat to eat!'H370H1320H5414H5971H1058H559H5414H1320H39814I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me!H3201H5375H5971H905H351515If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep starting at all of this misery!"H6213H2026H2026H4672H2580H5869H7200H745116Then the Lord told Moses, "Gather together for me 70 men who are elders of Israel, men whom you know to be elders of the people and officers over them. Then bring them to the tent of meeting and let them stand there with you.H3068H559H4872H622H7657H376H2205H3478H3045H2205H5971H7860H3947H168H4150H332017Then I'll come down and speak with you. I'll take some of the spirit that rests on you and apportion it among them, so that they may help you bear the burden of the people. That way, you won't bear it by yourself.H3381H1696H680H7307H7760H5375H4853H5971H537518"But give this command to the people: 'You are to consecrate yourselves, because tomorrow you're going to eat meat, since you've complained where the Lord can hear it, "Who can give us meat to eat - After all, life was better with us in Egypt."' Therefore, the Lord is going to give you meat and you'll eat -H559H5971H6942H4279H398H1320H1058H241H3068H559H1320H398H2895H4714H3068H5414H1320H39819not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days,H398H259H3117H3117H2568H3117H6235H3117H6242H311720but for a whole month - until it comes out your nostrils and makes you vomit. This is because you've despised the Lord, who is among you, and you cried out in his presence, complaining, 'Why did we ever leave of Egypt?'"H2320H3117H3318H639H2214H3282H3988H3068H7130H1058H6440H559H3318H471421Moses responded, "I'm with 600,000 people on foot and you're saying I am to give them enough meat to eat for a whole month -H4872H559H5971H7130H8337H3967H505H7273H559H5414H1320H398H3117H232022What if we were to slaughter our entire inventory of flocks and herds for them - Would that be enough - What if we could gather all the fish in the sea in nets for them - Would that be enough, either?"H6629H1241H7819H4672H1709H3220H622H467223But the Lord responded to Moses, "Is the Lord short on power - You're now going to witness whether what I say will come to pass or not."H3068H559H4872H3068H3027H7114H7200H1697H713624So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He gathered 70 men from the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent.H4872H3318H1696H5971H1697H3068H622H7657H376H2205H5971H5975H5439H16825The Lord came down in a cloud, spoke to Moses, and made an apportionment from the spirit who rested on him to the 70 elders. When the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but that was it.H3068H3381H6051H1696H680H7307H5414H7657H2205H376H7307H5117H5012H325426Now two men rhad emained in camp. One was named Eldad and the other was named Medad. When the spirit rested on them, since they were among those who were listed but had not gone out to the tent, they stayed behind and prophesied in the camp.H7604H8147H582H4264H8034H259H419H8034H8145H4312H7307H5117H3789H3318H168H5012H426427A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Meldad are prophesying in the camp!"H7323H5288H5046H4872H559H419H4312H5012H426428In response, Nun's son Joshua, Moses' attendant and one of his choice men, exclaimed, "My master Moses! Stop them!"H3091H1121H5126H8334H4872H979H6030H559H113H4872H360729"Are you jealous on account of me?" Moses asked in reply. "I wish all of the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!"H4872H559H7065H5414H3068H5971H5030H3068H5414H730730Then Moses - that is, he and the elders of Israel - returned to the camp.H4872H622H4264H2205H347831Just then, a wind burst forth from the Lord, who brought quails from the sea and spread them all around the camp, about a day's journey in each direction, completely encircling the camp about three feet deep on top of the ground!H5265H7307H3068H1468H7958H3220H5203H4264H3117H1870H3541H3117H1870H3541H5439H4264H520H6440H77632The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten 80-gallon drums, as they spread out all around the camp.H5971H6965H3117H3915H4283H3117H622H7958H4591H622H6235H2563H7849H7849H5439H426433But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swalloed it, the Lord became very angry with the people and struck them with a disasterous plague.H1320H2962H8127H3772H639H3068H2734H5971H3068H5221H5971H3966H7227H434734That's why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat.H7121H8034H4725H6914H6912H5971H18335Later, the people left Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth and camped there.1134H5971H5265H6914H2698H2698
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