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1 And when the peo­ple com­plained, it dis­pleased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kin­dled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and con­sumed them that were in the ut­ter­most parts of the camp. 2 And the peo­ple cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taber­ah: be­cause the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4 And the mixt mul­ti­tude that was among them fell a lust­ing: and the chil­dren of Is­rael also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We re­mem­ber the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cu­cum­bers, and the mel­ons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the gar­lick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is noth­ing at all, be­side this man­na, before our eyes. 7 And the man­na was as co­rian­der seed, and the colour there­of as the colour of bdel­li­um. 8 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. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the man­na fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the peo­ple weep through­out their fam­i­lies, ev­ery man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kin­dled great­ly; Moses also was dis­pleased. 11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Where­fore hast thou af­flict­ed thy ser­vant? and where­fore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the bur­den of all this peo­ple upon me? 12 Have I con­ceived all this peo­ple? have I be­got­ten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Car­ry them in thy bo­som, as a nurs­ing fa­ther beareth the suck­ing child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fa­thers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this peo­ple? for they weep unto me, say­ing, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this peo­ple alone, be­cause it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretched­ness. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gath­er unto 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 unto the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, that they may stand there with thee. 17 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 bear it not thy­self alone. 18 And say thou unto 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. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nei­ther ten days, nor twen­ty days; 20 But even a whole month, un­til it come out at your nos­trils, and it be loath­some unto you: be­cause that ye have de­spised the LORD which is among you, and have wept be­fore him, say­ing, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 21 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. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suf­fice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gath­ered to­geth­er for them, to suf­fice them? 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. 24 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 round about the taber­na­cle. 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spir­it that was upon him, and gave it unto the sev­en­ty el­ders: and it came to pass, that, when the spir­it rest­ed upon them, they proph­e­sied, and did not cease. 26 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 writ­ten, but went not out unto the taber­na­cle: and they proph­e­sied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, El­dad and Medad do proph­esy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the ser­vant of Moses, one of his young men, an­swered and said, My lord Moses, for­bid them. 29 And Moses said unto him, En­vi­est thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S peo­ple were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spir­it upon them! 30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the el­ders of Is­rael. 31 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, round about the camp, and as it were two cu­bits high upon the face of the earth. 32 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 round about the camp. 33 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. 34 And he called the name of that place Ki­broth­hat­taavah: be­cause there they buried the peo­ple that lust­ed. 35 And the peo­ple jour­neyed from Ki­broth­hat­taavah unto Haze­roth; and abode at Haze­roth.