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The Book of Numbers 11

11 And when the people were complaining it was evil in the ears of Yahweh, and Yahweh heard and his nose burned, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it ate at the end of the camp. 2 And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh and the fire sank; 3 and the name of that place was called Taberah, for the fire of Yahweh burned among them.

4 And the gathered rabble that was in its inner part desired a desire, and they turned back, and they wept, also the sons of Israel. And they said, “Who will let us eat meat? 5 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. 6 And now our life is dried up, there is not anything except for the manna in our eyes.” 7 And the manna, it was like the seed of coriander, and its eye was like the eye of bdellium. 8 The people went around and picked up and ground with the handmill or crushed with the mortar and boiled in the pot and made it cakes, and its taste was like the taste of the delicacy of the oil, 9 and when the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down on it. 10 And Moses heard the people weeping according to its clans, a man to the opening of his tent; and the nose of Yahweh burned exceedingly, and it was evil in the eyes of Moses. 11 And Moses said to Yahweh, “Why do you do evil to your servant? And why have I not found favor in your eyes, by putting the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all of this people? Did I give birth to him so that you could say to me, ‘Carry him in your bosom just as the one who nourishes carries the one who sucks over the ground that you have sworn to his fathers?’ 13 From where is meat for me to give to all of this people? For they weep beside me, saying, ‘Give to us meat and let us eat.’ 14 I am not able by myself to carry all of this people, for they are heavier than me. 15 And if you are going to do thus to me, please slay me quickly, if I have found favor in your eyes, and do not let me look on my evil.”

16 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather for me 70 men from the elders of Israel whom you know, so that they will be elders of the people and its officers, and take them to the tent of meeting, and they shall station themselves there with you. 17 And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will withdraw some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they will carry with you the burden of the people, and you will not carry by yourself. 18 And to the people you shall say, ‘Make yourselves holy for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat. For you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will let us eat meat? For it was good for us in Egypt.” And Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat. 19 You will eat not one day and not two days and not five days and not ten days and not twenty days, 20 until a month of days, until when it goes out from your nose. And it shall be for disgust for you, because that you rejected Yahweh who is in the midst of you, and you wept before his face, saying, “Why this—we went out from Egypt?” ’ ” 21 And Moses said, “The people are 600, 000 on foot who I am in the midst of, and you have said, ‘I shall give to them meat and they shall eat a month of days.’ 22 Shall flock and herd be slaughtered for them and one find for them? If all the fish of the sea were gathered for them, then will one find for them?” 23 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Is the hand of Yahweh short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

24 And Moses went out and he spoke to the people the words of Yahweh. And he gathered 70 men from the elders of the people, and he had them stand round about the tent. 25 And Yahweh came down in the cloud and he spoke to him, and he withdrew some of the spirit that was on him, and he put it on 70 men, the elders. And it happened when the spirit rested on them that they prophesied but did not again.

26 And two of the men were left in the camp: The name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad. And the spirit rested on them, and they were among the written down ones, but they had not gone out to the tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And the young man ran and reported to Moses, and he said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the server of Moses from his youth, responded and said, “My master Moses, restrain them.” 29 And Moses said to him, “Are you being jealous for me? And if only he would make all the people of Yahweh prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!” 30 And Moses withdrew to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

31 And a wind set out from with Yahweh, and it brought over quail from the sea, and it left on the camp like a road of a day here and like a road of a day here, round about the camp, and like two cubits upon the face of the land. 32 And the people rose all that day and all the night and all the day of the next day, and they gathered the quail. The one who did little gathered ten homers. And they spread out for them, spreading out round about the camp. 33 The meat was still between their teeth–before it was chewed–and the nose of Yahweh burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people an exceedingly great blow, 34 and he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had desired. 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people set out to Hazeroth. Then they were in Hazeroth.

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