Chapter 11
1 The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh . When Yahweh heard it , his anger burned ; and Yahweh ’s fire burned among them , and consumed some of the outskirts 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 Yahweh ’s fire burned among them .
4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly ; and the children of Israel also wept again , and said, " Who will give us meat 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 we have lost our appetite . There is nothing at all except this manna to look at ."
7 The manna was like coriander seed , and it looked like bdellium.
8 The people went around, gathered it , and ground it in mills , or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it . Its taste was like 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 Yahweh ’s anger burned greatly ; and Moses was displeased .
11 Moses said to Yahweh , " Why have you treated your servant so badly ? 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 out , that you should tell me , ‘ Carry them in your bosom , as a nurse carries a nursing infant , to the land which you swore to their fathers ’?
13 Where could I get meat to give all these people ? For they weep before me , saying, ‘ Give us meat , 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 treat me this way, please kill me right now , if I have found favor in your sight ; and don’t let me 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 . 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 don’t bear it yourself alone .
18 "Say to the people , ‘ Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow , and you will eat meat ; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh , saying, " Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt ." Therefore Yahweh will give you meat , and you will eat.
19 You will not eat just one day , or two days , or five days , or ten days , or twenty days ,
20 but a whole month , until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you ; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you , and have wept before him , saying, " Why did we come out of Egypt ?"’"
21 Moses said, " The people , among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot ; and you have said, ‘ I will give them meat , that they may eat a whole month .’
22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them , to be sufficient for them ? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them , to be sufficient for them ?"
23 Yahweh said to Moses , " Has Yahweh ’s hand grown short ? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not ."
24 Moses went out , and told the people Yahweh ’s words ; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people , and set them around 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 . When the Spirit rested on them , they prophesied , but they did so no more .
26 But two men remained in the camp . The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad ; and the Spirit rested on them . They were of those who were written , but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp .
27 A young man ran , and told Moses , and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp !"
28 Joshua the son of Nun , the servant of Moses , one of his chosen men , answered , " My lord Moses , forbid them !"
29 Moses said to him , " Are you jealous for my sake ? I wish that all Yahweh ’s people were prophets , that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them !"
30 Moses went into the camp , he and the elders of Israel .
31 A wind from Yahweh went out 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 , around the camp , and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
32 The people rose up all that day , and all of that night , and all the next day , and gathered the quails . He who gathered least gathered ten homers ; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp .
33 While the meat was still between their teeth , before it was chewed , Yahweh ’s anger burned against the people , and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague .
34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth ; and they stayed at Hazeroth .