The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
11: 1The people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh
heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the
uttermost part of the camp. 11:2The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the
fire abated. 11:3The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt
among them. 11:4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of
Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 11:5We remember the fish, which
we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlic: 11:6but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on. 11:7The
manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. 11:8The
people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in
pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 11:9When the dew fell on
the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. 11:10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their
families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and
Moses was displeased. 11:11Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and
why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 11:12Have I
conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your
bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
11:13Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us
flesh, that we may eat. 11:14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for
me. 11:15If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and
let me not see my wretchedness. 11:16Yahweh 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. 11:17I will come down and talk with
you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear
the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. 11:18Say you to the people,
Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of
Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore
Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat. 11:19You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five
days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have
wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 11:21Moses said, The people, among
whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they
may eat a whole month. 11:22Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all
the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? 11:23Yahweh said to Moses, Has
Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
11:24Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the
elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. 11:25Yahweh 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: and it
happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 11:26But
there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other
Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone
out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 11:27There ran a young man, and told Moses, and
said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. 11:28Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses,
one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them. 11:29Moses said to him, Are you
jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his
Spirit on them! 11:30Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 11:31There went forth a
wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's
journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the earth. 11:32The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all
the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread
them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 11:33While the flesh was yet between their
teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh
struck the people with a very great plague. 11:34The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah,
because there they buried the people who lusted. 11:35From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed
to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
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