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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Eventually, the people began complaining about their distress, and the LORD heard them. When the LORD heard, his anger flared up and the LORD's fire incinerated some of them within the outskirts of the camp. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire stopped. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He then named that place Taberah, because the LORD's fire had incinerated some of them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people had an insatiable appetite for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, "If only somebody would feed us some meat! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But now we can't stand it anymore, because there's nothing in front of us except this manna." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8People 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their entire families. Everyone gathered at the entrance to their tents so that the LORD was very angry. Moses thought the situation was bad, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11so 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! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Did 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? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they're crying in front of me, 'Give us meat to eat!' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If 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 staring at all of this misery!" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then 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." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"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— |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20but 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 by complaining, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Moses 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? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22What 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?" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But 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." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The 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. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Now two men had remained 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. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In response, Nun's son Joshua, Moses' attendant and one of his choice men, exclaimed, "My master Moses! Stop them!" |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"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!" |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then Moses—that is, he and the elders of Israel—returned to the camp. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Just 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 two cubits deep on top of the ground! |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The 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 omers, as they spread out all around the camp. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the LORD became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34That's why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Later, the people left Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth and camped there. |
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