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. Compare verse
2 And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched. Compare verse
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. Compare verse1 commentary
4 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? Compare verse3 commentaries
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: Compare verse2 commentaries
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. Compare verse
7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse
9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have you afflicted your servant? and why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Compare verse
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers? Compare verse
13 From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. Compare verse
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. Compare verse
15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. Compare verse
16 And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to 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 tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with you. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 And I will come down and talk with you there: and 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 bear it not yourself alone. Compare verse1 commentary
18 And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you 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 you shall eat. Compare verse
19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; Compare verse
20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because that you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? Compare verse
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Compare verse
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? Compare verse
23 And the LORD said to Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? you shall see now whether my word shall come to pass to you or not. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
25 And 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 it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, and did not cease. Compare verse1 commentary
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 on them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out to the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. Compare verse
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. Compare verse
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. Compare verse1 commentary
29 And Moses said to him, Envy you for my sake? would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them! Compare verse
30 And Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. Compare verse
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 on the face of the earth. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
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. Compare verse1 commentary
34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. Compare verse2 commentaries
35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah to Hazeroth; and stayed at Hazeroth. Compare verse