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4. MoseKapitel 11

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Now the people began to complain bitterly, and it was evil in the LORD's hearing. When the LORD heard it, his anger blazed, and fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.[^1] [^1]: Taberah means "burning."
The rabble among them were seized with craving, and the Israelites too began to weep again, saying, "If only we had meat to eat!
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing at all, nothing but this manna to look at."
The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of resin.
The people would go about and gather it, then grind it in a hand mill or crush it in a mortar. They boiled it in a pot and made cakes of it, and it tasted like something baked with olive oil.
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna came down with it.
Moses heard the people weeping, family after family, each at the entrance of his tent. The LORD's anger blazed fiercely, and Moses too was displeased.
So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your arms, as a nurse carries an infant,' to the land you promised on oath to their fathers?
Where am I to get meat for all this people? They keep weeping to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'
If this is how you are going to treat me, then kill me here and now—if I have found favor in your eyes—and let me not see my own misery."
The LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy of Israel's elders, men you know to be elders and officers of the people. Bring them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you, so that you will not carry it alone.
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. For you have wept in the LORD's hearing, saying, 'If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt.' Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you are sick of it—because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"
But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat, and they will eat for a whole month'!
Could enough flocks and herds be slaughtered for them? Could all the fish of the sea be caught to satisfy them?"
The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's hand too short? Now you will see whether my word comes true for you or not."
So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they did not do so again.
Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldad, the other Medad. The Spirit rested on them as well. They were among those registered, yet they had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.
A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant since his youth, spoke up: "My lord Moses, stop them!"[^1] [^1]: Or "one of his chosen men."
But Moses replied, "Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"
Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove in quail from the sea. It brought them down around the camp, about a day's journey on each side, to a depth of some two cubits over the ground.
All that day and night and all the next day the people were up gathering quail. No one collected less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was even chewed, the LORD's anger blazed against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
So that place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had given in to craving.[^1] [^1]: Kibroth Hattaavah means "graves of craving."
From Kibroth Hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and at Hazeroth they stayed.
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