Numbers 11:1-9 ▼

1 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD {YHWH}, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

2 And the people cried out to Moses (drawn out), and he prayed to the LORD {YHWH}, and the fire died down.

3 So that place was called Taberah (burning), because the fire of the LORD {YHWH} had burned among them.

4 Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites (God prevails) wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt (land of bondage), along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

6 But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

7 Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.