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Numbers 11
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- 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.
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