Num 11
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And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard them and was
very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of
the camp.
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And the people cried to Moses: and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was quenched.
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And the name of that place was called Heb. Taberah Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.
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And the mixed multitude among them Gr. lusted a lust lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and
wept and said,
Who shall give us flesh to eat?
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We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the Or, pumpkins melons, and the leeks, and the
garlic, and the onions.
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But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna.
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And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoar-frost.
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And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or
pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness
of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.
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And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.
10
And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord
was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.
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And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you afflicted your servant, and why have I not
found grace in your sight, that you should lay the weight of this people upon me?
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Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that you say to me, Take them
into your bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which you swore
to their fathers?
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Whence have I 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 shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.
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And if you do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with you, that I
may not see my affliction.
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And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom
you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you
shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.
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And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is
upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the Or, impetus burden of the people, and you shall
not bear them alone.
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And to the people you shall say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and you shall eat
flesh; for you wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
Gr. is was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and you shall
eat flesh.
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You shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;
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you shall eat for Gr. a month of days a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be Lit. cholers
nausea to you, because you disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before
him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?
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And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and you
said, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.
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Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the
fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?
23
And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? now
shall you know whether my word shall Gr. will overtake you come to pass to you or not.
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And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle.
25
And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was
upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested
upon them, they prophesied and ceased.
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And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name
of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number
of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied
in the camp.
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And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in
the camp.
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And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, My lord Moses,
forbid them.
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And Moses said to him, Art you jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord’s
people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them.
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And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.
31
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and
it brought them down upon the camp a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey
on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.
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And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered
quails; he who gathered Gr. little least, gathered ten Gr. cors measures; and they Gr. refreshed refreshments to themselves;
Heb. spread a spreading xwjv wxjvyw refreshed themselves round about the camp.
33
The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with
the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
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And the name of that place was called the Heb. hwath twrbq Kibroth-hattaavah Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people
that lusted.
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The people departed from the Graves of Lust to Aseroth; and the people Gr. were in halted at Aseroth.