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1 Eventually, 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. And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire stopped. Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down.
3 He then named that place Taberah, because the LORD's fire had incinerated some of them. So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them. So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.
4 Meanwhile, 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! Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
5 How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
6 But now we can't stand it anymore, because there's nothing in front of us except this manna.| But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
7 Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber. Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
8 People 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. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
9 When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it. When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
10 Moses 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, Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased. Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
11 so 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! Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
12 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? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers? Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?
13 Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they're crying in front of me, 'Give us meat to eat!' Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
14 I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me! I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
15 If 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!| If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.” If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
16 Then 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. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for 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, and let them take their stand there with you. The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17 Then 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.| And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.
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— And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. “Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.
19 not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days, You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,
20 but 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?|'| but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome 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?”’” but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?|’”
21 Moses 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? But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’ But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’
22 What 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?| Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?” Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
23 But 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.| And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.” The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
24 So 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. So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.
25 The 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. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
26 Now 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. Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.
27 A young man ran and reported to Moses, |Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!| And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28 In response, Nun's son Joshua, Moses' attendant and one of his choice men, exclaimed, |My master Moses! Stop them!| And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
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!| But 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!” But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
30 Then Moses—that is, he and the elders of Israel—returned to the camp. And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
31 Just 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! Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside 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 ground. Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction.
32 The 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. And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
33 But 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. While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague. But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
34 That's why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat. Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving. Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
35 Later, the people left Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth and camped there. From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth. From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.
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