[1] The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh:
and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh
burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. [2] The
people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated. [3]
The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt
among them. [4] The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us
flesh to eat? [5] We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing;
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlic: [6] but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save
this manna to look on. [7] The manna was like coriander seed, and the
appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. [8] The people went about,
and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled
it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
fresh oil. [9] When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell
on it. [10] Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every
man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly;
and Moses was displeased. [11] Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill
with your servant? and why haven`t I found favor in your sight, that you
lay the burden of all this people on me? [12] Have I conceived all this
people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in
your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land
which you swore to their fathers? [13] Whence should I have flesh to give
to all this people? for they weep to 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] If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if
I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. [16]
Yahweh 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; and
bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. [17]
I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit
which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. [18] Say you to
the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh;
for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to
eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you
flesh, and you shall eat. [19] You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, [20] but a whole month, until
it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you
have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt? [21] Moses said, The people, among whom I
am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them
flesh, that they may eat a whole month. [22] Shall flocks and 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] Yahweh said to Moses, Has
Yahweh`s hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen
to you or not. [24] Moses went out, and told the people the words of
Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the Tent. [25] Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to
him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy
elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they
prophesied, but they did so no more. [26] But there remained two men in the
camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and
the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had
not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. [27] There ran a
young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the
camp. [28] Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen
men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them. [29] Moses said to him, Are you
jealous for my sake? would that all Yahweh`s people were prophets, that
Yahweh would put his Spirit on them! [30] Moses got him into the camp, he
and the elders of Israel. [31] There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day`s
journey on this side, and a day`s journey on the other side, round about
the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth. [32] The
people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and
gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they
spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. [33] While the
flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of
Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a
very great plague. [34] The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah,
because there they buried the people who lusted. [35] From Kibrothhattaavah
the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
