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Numbers 11:1 (NIV)
Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord , and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 11:10 (NIV)
Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
Numbers 11:11 (NIV)
He asked the Lord , “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
Numbers 11:12 (NIV)
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?
Numbers 11:13 (NIV)
Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Numbers 11:14 (NIV)
I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:15 (NIV)
If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
Numbers 11:16 (NIV)
The Lord said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17 (NIV)
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power 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 have to carry it alone.
Numbers 11:18 (NIV)
“Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat it.
Numbers 11:19 (NIV)
You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,
Numbers 11:2 (NIV)
When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire died down.
Numbers 11:3 (NIV)
So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the Lord had burned among them.
Numbers 11:4 (NIV)
The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
Numbers 11:5 (NIV)
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Numbers 11:6 (NIV)
But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Numbers 11:7 (NIV)
The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
Numbers 11:8 (NIV)
The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
Numbers 11:9 (NIV)
When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
Numbers 11:20 (NIV)
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the Lord , who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”
Numbers 11:21 (NIV)
But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’
Numbers 11:22 (NIV)
Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
Numbers 11:23 (NIV)
The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord ’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
Numbers 11:24 (NIV)
So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.
Numbers 11:25 (NIV)
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.