Numbers:11:4-35

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* Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving ; so the children of Israel also wept again and said : "Who will give us meat to eat ? * We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt , the cucumbers , the melons , the leeks , the onions , and the garlic ; * but now our whole being is dried up ; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes !" * Now the manna was like coriander seed , and its color like the color of bdellium . * The people went about and gathered it , ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar , cooked it in pans , and made cakes of it ; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil . * And when the dew fell on the camp in the night , the manna fell on it . * Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families , everyone at the door of his tent ; and the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused ; Moses also was displeased . * So Moses said to the LORD , "Why have You afflicted Your servant ? And why have I not found favor in Your sight , that You have laid the burden of all these people on me ? * Did I conceive all these people ? Did I beget them , that You should say to me , "Carry them in your bosom , as a guardian carries a nursing child ,' to the land which You swore to their fathers ? * Where am I to get meat to give to all these people ? For they weep all over me , saying , "Give us meat , that we may eat .' * I am not able to bear all these people alone , because the burden is too heavy for me . * If You treat me like this , please kill me here and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness !" * So the LORD 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 ; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting , that they may stand there with you . * Then I will come down and talk with you there . I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you , that you may not bear it yourself alone . * Then you shall say to the people , "Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow , and you shall eat meat ; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD , saying , "Who will give us meat to eat ? For it was well with us in Egypt ." Therefore the LORD will give you meat , and you shall eat . * You shall eat , not one day , nor two days , nor five days , nor ten days , nor twenty days , * but for a whole month , until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you , because you have despised the LORD who is among you , and have wept before Him , saying , "Why did we ever come up out of Egypt ?""' * And Moses said , "The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot ; yet You have said , "I will give them meat , that they may eat for a whole month .' * Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them , to provide enough for them ? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them , to provide enough for them ?" * And the LORD said to Moses , "Has the LORD 's arm been shortened ? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not ." * So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD , and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle . * Then the LORD came down in the cloud , and spoke to him , and took of the Spirit that was upon him , and placed the same upon the seventy elders ; and it happened , when the Spirit rested upon them , that they prophesied , although they never did so again . * But two men had remained in the camp : the name of one was Eldad , and the name of the other Medad . And the Spirit rested upon them . Now they were among those listed , but who had not gone out to the tabernacle ; yet they prophesied in the camp . * And a young man ran and told Moses , and said , "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp ." * So Joshua the son of Nun , Moses ' assistant , one of his choice men , answered and said , "Moses my lord , forbid them !" * Then Moses said to him , "Are you zealous for my sake ? Oh , that all the LORD 's people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them !" * And Moses returned to the camp , he and the elders of Israel . * Now a wind went out from the LORD , and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp , about a day 's journey on this side and about a day 's journey on the other side , all around the camp , and about two cubits above the surface of the ground . * And the people stayed up all that day , all night , and all the next day , and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers ); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp . * But while the meat was still between their teeth , before it was chewed , the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people , and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague . * So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah , because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving . * From Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Hazeroth , and camped at Hazeroth .

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