Numbers:11:4-35

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* And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted ; and the children of Israel also wept again and said , Who will give us flesh to eat ? * We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing ; the cucumbers , and the melons , and the leeks , and the onions , and the garlic ; * and now our soul is dried up : there is nothing at all but the manna before our eyes . * And the manna was as coriander seed , and its appearance as the appearance of bdellium . * The people went about , and gathered it , and ground it with hand-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 oil-cakes . * And when the dew fell upon the camp by night , the manna fell upon it . * And Moses heard the people weep throughout their families , every one at the entrance of his tent ; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly ; it was also evil in the eyes of Moses . * And Moses said to Jehovah , Why hast thou done evil to thy servant , and why have I not found favour in thine eyes , that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me ? * Have I conceived all this people , have I brought them forth , that thou sayest to me , Carry them in thy bosom , as the nursing-father beareth the suckling , unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers ? * Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people ? for they weep unto me , saying , Give us flesh that we may eat ! * I am not able to bear all this people alone , for it is too heavy for me . * And if thou deal thus with me , slay me , I pray thee , if I have found favour in thine eyes , that I may not behold my wretchedness . * And Jehovah said to Moses , Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel , whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people , and their officers ; and take them to the tent of meeting , and they shall stand there with thee . * And I will come down and talk with thee there ; and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee , and will put it upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee , and thou shalt not bear it alone . * And unto the people shalt thou say , Hallow yourselves for to-morrow , and ye shall eat flesh ; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah , saying , Who will give us flesh to eat ? for it was well with us in Egypt ; and Jehovah will give you flesh , and ye shall eat . * Not one day shall ye eat , nor two days , nor five days , neither ten days , nor twenty days ; * [but ] for a whole month , until it come out at your nostrils , and it become loathsome unto you ; because that ye have despised Jehovah who is among you , and have wept before him , saying , Why came we forth out of Egypt ? * And Moses said , The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand footmen ; and thou sayest , I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month . * Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them , to suffice them ? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered for them , to suffice them ? * And Jehovah said to Moses , Hath Jehovah 's hand become short ? Now shalt thou see whether my word will come to pass unto thee or not . * And Moses went out and told the people the words of Jehovah ; and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people , and set them round about the tent . * And Jehovah 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 , the elders ; and it came to pass , that when the Spirit rested on them , they prophesied , but they did not repeat [it ]. * And two men remained in the camp , the name of the one , Eldad , and the name of the other , Medad ; and the Spirit rested upon them (and they were among them that were written , but they had not gone out to the tent ); and they prophesied in the camp . * And there ran a youth , and told Moses , and said , Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp . * And Joshua the son of Nun , the attendant of Moses , one of his young men , answered and said , My lord Moses , forbid them ! * But Moses said to him , Enviest thou for my sake ? would that all Jehovah 's people were prophets , [and ] that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them ! * And Moses withdrew into the camp , he and the elders of Israel . * And there went forth a wind from Jehovah , and drove quails from the sea , and cast them about the camp , about a day 's journey on this side , and about a day 's journey on the other side , round about the camp , and about two cubits above the earth . * And the people rose up all that day , and the whole night , and all the next day , and they gathered the quails : he that gathered little gathered ten homers ; and they spread them abroad for themselves round about the camp . * The flesh was yet between their teeth , before it was chewed , when the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against the people , and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague . * And they called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah ; because there they buried the people who lusted . * From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth ; and they were at Hazeroth .

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