Numbers 11:1-13 ▼

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.

2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire stopped.

3 He then named that place Taberah, because the LORD's fire had incinerated some of 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!

5 How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And 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.|

7 Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber.

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.

9 When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it.

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,

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!

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?

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!'