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Chapter 11 |
| 1 | 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. |
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2 | And the people cried unto
Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. |
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And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt
among them. |
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| And the mixed 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? |
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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
garlic: |
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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 color thereof as the color 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 favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of
all this people upon me? |
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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? |
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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.
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| 14 | I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for
me. |
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And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of
hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my
wretchedness. |
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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? |
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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.
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| 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. |
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27 | And there ran a young
man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
