Numbers 11
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Complaints in the Desert
1Now when the people complained openly before the Lord, the Lord heard, and His anger burned. Then the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. # Lev 10:2; Nu 16:35 2And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, # Nu 16:45–48; 21:7 and the fire was quenched. 3He called the name of the place Taberah # Dt 9:22 because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4The mixed multitude # Ex 12:38 that was among them lusted, # 1Co 10:6 and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? 5We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. # Ex 16:3 6But now our life is dried up. There is nothing at all except this manna # Nu 21:5 before our eyes.”
7The manna was as coriander seed, # Ex 16:31 and it looked like bdellium. # Ge 2:12 8The people went about and gathered it, # Ex 16:16–18 and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked in oil. 9When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it. # Ex 16:13–14
10Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the opening of his tent, and the anger of the Lord burned greatly. Moses was also displeased. 11Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You hurt Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your eyes, that You lay the burden of all this people on me? # Dt 1:12 12Have I conceived all this people? Have I given them birth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse bears the nursing child,’ # Isa 49:23 to the land which You swore to their fathers? # Ex 13:5 13Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? # Mt 15:33; Mk 8:4 For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. # Ex 18:18 15If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.” # 1Ki 19:4; Jon 4:3
The Seventy Elders
16Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather to Me seventy men # Dt 10:22; Lk 10:1 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 take a stand there with you. # Ex 24:1, 9 17And I will come down, and I will speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit which is on you and will put it on them, # 1Sa 10:6 and they will bear the burden of the people with you, and you will not bear it by yourself. # Nu 11:25
18“And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, # Ex 19:10 and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, ‘Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.’ Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19You shall eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, 20but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it will be nauseating to you because you rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, ‘Why did we come out of Egypt?’ ” # Nu 21:5
21And Moses said, “The people I am with number six hundred thousand foot soldiers, # Ex 12:37; 38:26 and You have said, ‘I will give them meat that they may eat a whole month.’ 22Will the flocks and the herds be slaughtered for them, to satisfy them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to satisfy them?” # Mt 15:33
23And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the hand of the Lord shortened? # Isa 50:2; 59:1 Now you will see if My word will happen to you or not.”
24Moses went out, and he spoke to the people the words of the Lord and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and set them around the tabernacle. # Nu 11:16 25And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and gave it to the seventy elders, and when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, # 1Sa 10:10 but did not do it again.
26But 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 among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27And a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.”
28Then Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, forbid them.”
29Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all the people of the Lord were prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!” # Joel 2:28; Mk 9:38; 1Co 14:5 30And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
The Lord Sends Quail
31Now a wind from the Lord started up, and it swept quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, # Ex 16:13; Ps 105:40 about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits # 11:31 About 3 feet, or 90 centimeters. above the ground. 32And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. # Ex 16:36; Eze 45:11 # 11:32 Likely about 13/4 tons, or 1.6 metric tons. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33While the meat was between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great slaughter. # Ps 78:30–31 34And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah # Dt 9:22 because there they buried the people who had the craving.
35The people journeyed from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they camped at Hazeroth. # Nu 12:16; 33:17
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