Numbers:11:4-35

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* And the mixed multitude among them lusted with a great lust ; and the sons of Israel also turned back and wept , and said , Who shall cause us to eat flesh ? * 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 withers . There is nothing except this manna before our eyes . * And the manna was like coriander seed , and its look like the look of bdellium resin gum . * And the people went around and gathered it , and ground it in mills , or beat it in mortars , and boiled it in a pan , and made it into cakes . And its taste was like the taste of fresh oil . * And when the dew came down on the camp by night , the manna came down on it . * And Moses heard the people weeping by its families , each at the door of his tent ; and the anger of Jehovah glowed exceedingly , and in the eyes of Moses it was evil . * And Moses said to Jehovah , Why have You done evil to Your servant ; and why have I not found grace in Your eyes to put the burden of all this people on me ? * I , have I conceived all this people ? I , have I begotten it , that You say to me , Carry it in your bosom as the foster father bears the suckling , to the land which You have sworn to its fathers ? * Where shall I get flesh to give to all this people ? For they weep to me , saying , Give to us flesh that we may eat . * I am not able , I alone , to bear all this people , for it is too heavy for me ; * and if You deal thus with me , please quickly kill me , if I have found grace in Your eyes , and let me not look on my affliction . * And Jehovah said to Moses , assemble to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel , whom you have known that they are elders of the people , and its officers . And you shall take them to the tabernacle of the congregation ; and they shall station themselves there with you . * And I shall come down and speak with you there ; and I will take of the spirit which is upon you , and will put it on them ; and they will bear the burden of the people with you , that you may not bear it yourself alone . * And you shall say to the people , Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow , and you shall eat flesh . For you have wept in the ears of Jehovah , saying , Who shall give us flesh , for we had good in Egypt ? And Jehovah shall give flesh to you , and you shall eat . * You shall not eat one day , nor two days , nor five days , nor ten days , nor twenty days ; * but to a month of days , until it comes out of your nostrils , and it shall become to you a loathsome thing ; because you have loathed Jehovah , who is in your midst , and weep before Him , saying , Why is it that we have come out of Egypt ? * And Moses said , The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand footmen ; and You , You have said , I shall give flesh to them , and they shall eat a month of days . * Shall flock and herd be slaughtered for them , so one may find for them ? Ar all the fish in the sea to be gathered for them , that one may find for them ? * And Jehovah said to Moses , Is the hand of Jehovah shortened ? Now you shall see whether My word shall come to pass to you or not . * And Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of Jehovah and gathered seventy men of the elders of the people , and caused them to stand around the tabernacle . * And Jehovah came down in the cloud and spoke to him , and took of the spirit which was on him , and put it on the seventy men of the elders . And it happened , as the spirit rested on them , that they prophesied , but they did not continue . * And two of the men were left in the camp , the name of the one being Eldad , and the name of the second Medad ; and the spirit rested on them , and they were among those written , but did not go out to the tabernacle And they prophesied in the camp . * And a young man ran and told Moses , and said , Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp . * And Joshua the son of Nun , minister to Moses , of his young men , answered and said , My lord Moses , stop them . * And Moses said to him , Are you jealous for my sake ? Oh that all Jehovah 's people were prophets , that Jehovah would put His spirit on them ! * And Moses withdrew into the camp , he and the elders of Israel . * And a wind went forth from Jehovah and cut off quails from the sea , and let them fall by the camp , as a day 's journey here , and as a day 's journey there , all around the camp , and about two cubits above the face of the land . * And the people rose up all that day , and all that night , and the day after , and gathered the quails ; he who had least had gathered ten homers . And they spread them out for themselves around the camp . * The flesh was yet between their teeth , it was not yet cut off , and the anger of Jehovah glowed among the people . And Jehovah struck among the people with a very great plague . * And one called the name of that place , The Graves of Lust ; for there they buried the people who lusted . * From the Graves of Lust the people pulled up to go to Hazeroth , and they remained in Hazeroth .

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