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          DASV: Numbers 11    

1 Now the people complained in the hearing of the LORD.
When the LORD heard it, his anger burned and the fire of the LORD
burned among them and consumed the outer edges of the camp.
2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to
the LORD, and the fire died out.
3 So the name of that place was called Taberah (burning),
because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

4 Now the foreign rabble who were among them craved other
food and the Israelites also whined again, and demanded,
"Who will give us meat to eat!
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, the cucumbers,
melons, leeks, onions and the garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone. There is nothing to look
at but this manna."
7 Now manna was like coriander seed, and its color was
like yellowish gum resin.
8 The people went around and gathered it and ground it in
handmills or beat it in mortar bowls. Then they boiled
it in pots or made cakes of it. It tasted like something
made with fresh olive oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would
come down with it.

10 When Moses heard the people whining in all their families,
everyone at the entrance of his tent, the anger of the LORD
burned greatly, and Moses was displeased.
11 So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated me,
your servant, so poorly? Why have I not found favor
in your sight, that you have put the burden of all this
people on me?
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth,
that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your arms as a nurse
carries a nursing baby' to the land that you promised
to their forefathers?
13 Where can I get meat to give all these people?
For they keep whining to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'
14 I am not able to bear all these people by myself alone,
the burden is too heavy for me.
15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill
me right now. If I have found favor in your sight, do
not let me witness my misery."

16 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Gather before 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 Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will
take of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them.
Then they will help bear the burden of the people with you,
so that you will not have bear it all by yourself.
18 Tell the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow,
and you will eat meat; for you have wailed in the ears of the LORD,
saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was better for us
in Egypt.'" Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you
will eat.
19 You will eat, not for just one or two days, or even five,
ten or twenty days,
20 but for a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils
and until you are sick of it; because you have rejected the
LORD who is among you, and have whined before him, saying,
'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

21 Then Moses said, "The people around me are six hundred
thousand foot soldiers but you have said, 'I will give them meat,
that they may eat for a whole month.'
22 Would it be enough for them even if the flocks and herds
were slaughtered for them? Even if we caught all the fish
in the sea, would it be enough for them?"
23 Then the LORD replied, "Is the LORD's arm not strong enough?
Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not."
24 Then Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD.
He gathered seventy men from the elders of the people
and placed them around the Tent of Meeting.
25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him,
and took some 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 not do it again.

26 But two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad
and the other named Medad and the Spirit rested on them.
They were listed among those elders but had not gone out
to the Tent of Meeting, and they prophesied in the camp.
27 A young man ran and informed Moses, "Eldad and Medad
are prophesying in the camp!"
28 Then Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of
his chosen men, answered and said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"
29 But Moses replied, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish
that all of the LORD's people were prophets, that the
LORD would put his spirit on them!"

30 Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders
of Israel.
31 There went forth a wind from the LORD, and it 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 three feet deep
on the surface of the ground.
32 So the people stayed up all that day and night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quails. The least
any one gathered was sixty bushels and they spread them
out for themselves around the camp.
33 While the meat was still between their teeth, even before
it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against
the people, and the LORD struck the people with a
very great plague.
34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah
(graves of gluttony), because there they buried the
people that craved other food.
35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to
Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.

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