Numbers:11:4-35
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And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting :
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 ate in Egypt freely :
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 ,
besides this manna ,
before our eyes .
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And the manna was as coriander-seed ,
and the color of it as the color of bdellium .
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And the people went about ,
and gathered it and ground it in mills ,
or beat it in a mortar ,
and baked it in pans ,
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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Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families ,
every man in the door of his tent :
and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly :
Moses also was displeased .
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And Moses said to the LORD ,
Why hast thou afflicted thy servant ?
and why have I not found favor in thy sight ,
that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me ?
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Have I conceived all this people ?
have I begotten them ,
that thou shouldest say to me ,
Carry them in thy bosom ,
as a nursing-father beareth the sucking child ,
to the land which thou sworest 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 thou dealest thus with me ,
kill me ,
I pray thee ,
out of hand ,
if I have found favor in thy sight ;
and let me not see my wretchedness .
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And the LORD said to Moses ,
Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel ,
whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people ,
and officers over them ;
and bring them to the tabernacle of the congregation ,
that they may stand there with thee .
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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 ,
that thou mayest not bear it thyself alone .
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And say thou to the people ,
Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow ,
and ye shall eat flesh ;
for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD ,
saying ,
Who shall give us flesh to eat ?
for it was well with us in Egypt :
therefore the LORD will give you flesh ,
and ye shall eat .
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Ye shall not eat one day ,
nor two days ,
nor five days ,
neither ten days ,
nor twenty days ;
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But even a whole month ,
until it shall come out at your nostrils ,
and it be lothsome to you ;
because ye have despised the LORD 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 thou hast said ,
I will give them flesh ,
that they may eat a whole month .
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Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them ,
to suffice for them ?
or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered for them ,
to suffice for them ?
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And the LORD said to Moses ,
Is the LORD '
S hand shortened ?
thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass to thee ,
or not .
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And Moses went out ,
and told the people the words of the LORD ,
and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people ,
and set them around the tabernacle .
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And the LORD came down in a cloud ,
and spoke to him ,
and took of the spirit that was upon him ,
and gave it to the seventy elders :
and it came to pass ,
that when the spirit rested upon them ;
they prophesied ,
and did not cease .
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But there remained two of the 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 described ,
but went not out to the tabernacle :
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 servant of Moses ,
one of his young men ,
answered and said ,
My lord ,
Moses ,
forbid them .
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And Moses said to him ,
Enviest thou for my sake ?
I would that all the LORD '
S people were prophets ,
and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them .
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And Moses withdrew into the camp ,
he and the elders of Israel .
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And there went forth a wind from the LORD ,
and brought quails from the sea ,
and let them fall by the camp ,
as it were a day '
s journey on this side ,
and as it were a day '
s journey on the other side ,
around the camp ,
and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth .
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And the people stood up all that day ,
and all that night ,
and all the next day ,
and they gathered the quails :
he that gathered least gathered ten homers :
and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp .
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And while the flesh was yet between their teeth ,
ere it was chewed ,
the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people ,
and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague .
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And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah :
because there they buried the people that lusted .
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And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah to Hazeroth :
and abode at Hazeroth .
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