Numbers 11:1-15 ▼

1 And the people complained of adversity, and it displeased YHWH. For YHWH heard it, and His anger was kindled. And the fire of YHWH burned among them and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.

2 And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to YHWH, and the fire was quenched.

3 And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of YHWH had burned among them.

4 And the rabble who were among them had yielded to craving, and the sons of Israel also again wept and said, “Who will let us eat flesh?

5 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

6 And our soul is dried up. There is nothing at all, except this manna unto our eyes.”

7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and its eye was like the eye of of bdellium.

8 The people went about and gathered it, and ground it on millstones, or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in the pan, and made cakes of it. And its taste was like the taste of the pastry of oil.

9 And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna fell on it.

10 And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent, and the anger of YHWH was kindled greatly; and in the eyes of Moses it was evil.

11 And Moses said to YHWH, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your eyes, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

12 Did I conceive all this people? Or did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land that You swore to their fathers?

13 From where to me is flesh to give to all this people? For they weep over 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 You treat me like this, kill me, please, right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and do not let me see my wretchedness.”