Numbers 11:1-9 ▼

1 Now the people complained bitterly in the hearing of the LORD; and when he heard it his wrath flared up, so that the LORD’s fire burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

2 But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.

3 Hence that place was called Taberah, because there the fire of the LORD burned among them.

4 The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!

5 We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

6 But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but this manna.”

7 Manna was like coriander seed and had the appearance of bdellium.

8 When they had gone about and gathered it up, the people would grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar, then cook it in a pot and make it into loaves, with a rich creamy taste.

9 At night, when the dew fell upon the camp, the manna also fell.