Numbers 21:5 Cross References - ECB

⁵ And the people word against Elohim and against Mosheh, Why ascended you us from Misrayim to die in the wilderness? for there is neither bread nor water; and our soul abhors this light bread.

¹¹ and say to Mosheh, Because there are no tombs in Misrayim, take you us away to die in the wilderness? Why work you thus with us - to carry us forth from Misrayim?

²⁴ And the people murmur against Mosheh, saying, What drink we?

² and the whole witness of the sons of Yisra El murmur against Mosheh and Aharon in the wilderness. ³ And the sons of Yisra El say to them, O that we were given to die by the hand of Yah Veh - in the land of Misrayim when we settled by the flesh cauldrons and when we ate bread to satiety; for you bring us into this wilderness, to deathify this whole congregation with famine.

⁷ and in the morning, you see the honor of Yah Veh; for he hears your murmurings against Yah Veh: And who are we, that you murmur against us? ⁸ And Mosheh says, In the evening, Yah Veh gives you flesh to eat and in the morning bread to satiety; for Yah Veh hears the murmurings you murmur against him! And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yah Veh!

¹⁵ And when the sons of Yisra El see it, they say, man to brother, Manna: for they know not what it is. And Mosheh says to them, This is the bread which Yah Veh gives you for food:

³¹ And the house of Yisra El calls its name Manna: and it is as coriander seed, white; and its taste, as wafers with honey.

² And the people strive with Mosheh and say, Give us water to drink. And Mosheh says to them, Why strive with me? Why test you Yah Veh? ³ And there the people thirst for water; and the people murmur against Mosheh and say, Why ascended you us from Misrayim, to deathify us and our sons and our chattel with thirst?

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THE CONSUMING FIRE OF YAH VEH
And the people complain evilly in the ears of Yah Veh: and Yah Veh hears and kindles his wrath; and kindles the fire of Yah Veh among them and consumes the ends of the camp. ² And the people cry to Mosheh; and when Mosheh prays to Yah Veh, the fire quenches. ³ And he calls the name of the place Taberah/Burning: because the fire of Yah Veh kindles among them. ⁴
SONS OF YISRA EL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MANNA
And the gathering in their midst desires a desire: and the sons of Yisra El turn to weep and say, Who feeds us flesh? ⁵ We remember the fish we gratuitously ate in Misrayim; the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic: ⁶ but now our soul dries: there is naught except this manna in front of our eyes. ⁷ - and the manna is as coriander seed and the eye thereof as the eye of bdellium. ⁸ And the people flit and glean it and grind it in millstones, and beat it in a mortar and stew it in skillets and work ashcakes thereof: and the taste thereof is as the taste of juicy oil. ⁹ And as the dew descends on the camp at night the manna descends thereon.

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THE SONS OF YISRA EL MURMUR
And all the witness lift and give their voice and cry; and the people weep that night. ² And all the sons of Yisra El murmur against Mosheh and against Aharon: and all the witness say to them, O that we had died in the land of Misrayim! O that we had died in this wilderness! ³ And why brings Yah Veh us to this land, to fall by the sword? And our women and our children become a plunder? Were it not better for us to return into Misrayim? ⁴ And they say man to brother, We give us a head and return to Misrayim.

¹³ Is it petty that you ascended us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to deathify us in the wilderness? - and in marshalling, marshall over us? ¹⁴ Yes, you neither brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor gave us inheritance of fields and vineyards: bore you out the eyes of these men? We ascend not!

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SONS OF YISRA EL MURMUR
But on the morrow all the witness of the sons of Yisra El murmur against Mosheh and against Aharon, saying, You deathified the people of Yah Veh.

¹² And the sons of Yisra El say to Mosheh, saying, Behold! We expire! We destruct! We all destruct!

⁶ Elohim sets the lonely in households; he brings the bound into prosperity: but they who revolt dwell in a parch.

¹⁹ yes, they word against Elohim; they say, El - arranges he a table in the wilderness?

²⁴ - he rains manna on them to eat and gives them the crop of the heavens: ²⁵ man eats the bread of the mighty he sends them hunt to satiate.

⁷ The satiated soul tramples a honeycomb; and to the famished soul all bitter is sweet.