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 itin mills, or beatitin 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
youlay the burdenof allthis people onme?

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 meatto give allthese
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 ofthe 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 thepeople, ‘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,