Numbers 11 Now the people complained about hunger speaking evil in the ears of the LORD, so that when the LORD heard it, his anger flared and the fire of the LORD burned against them and even consumed the outskirts of the camp.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now the people complained about hunger speaking evil in the ears of the LORD, so that when the LORD heard it, his anger flared and the fire of the LORD burned against them and even consumed the outskirts of the camp. ² Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. ³ That place was called Taberah (Fire) because fire from the LORD burned among them there. ⁴ Some foreigners among the Israelites had a strong craving for other kinds of food. Even the Israelites cried again and said: "If only we had meat to eat! ⁵ We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic. ⁶ "Now we have lost our appetite! Everywhere we look there is nothing but manna!" ⁷ The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium. ⁸ The people went about and gathered it, and they ground it with mills or crushed it with mortar. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes. ⁹ When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down with it. ¹⁰ Moses heard people from every family cry at the entrance to their tents. the LORD became very angry. Moses did not like it either. ¹¹ So he asked: "the LORD, why have you brought me this trouble? How have I displeased you that you put the burden of all these people on me? ¹² Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?' ¹³ "Where can I get meat for all these people? They continually cry for me to give them meat to eat. ¹⁴ I cannot bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me! ¹⁵ If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery." ¹⁶ The LORD said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. ¹⁷ I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that is on you, and I will place it on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone. ¹⁸ “Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. ¹⁹ You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, ²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”'” ²¹ And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month? ²² "Could enough cattle and sheep even be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them? ²³ The LORD said to Moses, "Has the LORD's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not." ²⁴ Thus Moses went out and told the people what the LORD said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the tent. ²⁵ the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. ²⁶ Two of the seventy elders, Eldad and Medad, stayed in the camp and did not go out to the tent. There in the camp the Spirit came on them, and they too began to shout like prophets. ²⁷ A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." ²⁸ Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses: "Stop them, sir!" ²⁹ Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them." ³⁰ Then Moses and the elders of Israel went back to the camp. ³¹ the LORD sent a wind from the sea that brought quails and dropped them all around the camp. There were quails on the ground about three feet deep as far as you could walk in a day in any direction. ³² All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered the quails. No one gathered less than sixty bushels. Then they spread the quails out all around the camp. ³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. ³⁴ Therefore that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah because there, they buried the people who had insatiable appetite for meat. ³⁵ From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.