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13 »Where can I get meat for all these people? They continually cry for me to give them meat to eat.
14 »I am not able to take care of all these people by myself. This is too much work for me!
15 »If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.«
16 Jehovah replied to Moses: »Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as elders of the people. Bring them to me at the tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.
17 »I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the spirit I have given and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people. You will not have to bear it alone.
18 »Tell the people: ‘Purify yourselves for tomorrow. You will have meat to eat! Jehovah has heard you whining and saying that you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Jehovah will now give you meat, and you will have to eat it.
19 »‘You will have to eat it not just for one or two days, or five, or ten, or even twenty days.
20 »‘You will eat it for a whole month, until it comes out of your nose, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected Jehovah who is here among you and have complained to him that you should not have left Egypt.’«
21 Moses said to Jehovah: »Here I am leading six hundred thousand people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?«
22 »Could enough cattle and sheep even be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?
23 »Is there a limit to my power?« Jehovah answered. »You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!«