Num 11
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And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of YHWH: and when YHWH
heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of YHWH burnt among them, and devoured
in the uttermost part of the camp.
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And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to YHWH, and the fire abated.
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And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of YHWH burnt among
them.
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And the 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?
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We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the
melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
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but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.
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And the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance as the appearance
of bdellium.
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The 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.
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And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door
of his tent: and the anger of YHWH was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
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And Moses said to YHWH, Wherefore have you dealt ill with your servant? and wherefore
have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon
me?
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Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should say to
me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the
land which you swore to their fathers?
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Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying,
Give us flesh, that we may eat.
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I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
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And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor
in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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And YHWH 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.
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And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which
is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people
with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.
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And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and you shall eat
flesh; for you have wept in the ears of YHWH, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore YHWH will give you flesh, and you shall
eat.
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You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty
days,
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but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you;
because that you have rejected YHWH who is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt?
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And Moses 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.
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Shall 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?
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And YHWH said to Moses, Is YHWH`s hand waxed short? now shall you see whether my word
shall come to pass to you or not.
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And Moses went out, and told the people the words of YHWH: and he gathered seventy
men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
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And YHWH came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was
upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the
Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
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But 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 upon them; and they were of them that were
written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
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And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in
the camp.
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered
and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
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And Moses said to him, Art you jealous for my sake? would that all YHWH`s people were
prophets, that YHWH would put his Spirit upon them!
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And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
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And there went forth a wind from YHWH, 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 face of the earth.
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And the 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.
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While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of YHWH
was kindled against the people, and YHWH smote the people with a very great plague.
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And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried
the people that lusted.
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From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.