11:1  Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

11:2   The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.

11:3  So the name of that place they called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.

11:4   The rabble who lived among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, " Who will give us meat to eat?

11:5  " We remember the fish which we used to freely eat in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

11:6   but now our appetite has left us. We find nothing at all to look at except this manna."

11:7   Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

11:8  The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste resembled the taste of cakes baked with oil.

11:9   When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

11:10   Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD kindled greatly, and Moses felt displeased.

11:11   So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You seemed so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

11:12  " Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers'?

11:13   "Where can I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat!'

11:14   " I alone cannot able to carry all this people, because they have become too burdensome for me.

11:15  " So if You will deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness."

11:16   The LORD therefore said to Moses, "Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know as the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

11:17   " Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who will come upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.

11:18  "Say to the people, ' Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we felt well-off in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat and you shall eat.

11:19   'You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

11:20  but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who dwells among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

11:21  But Moses said, "The people, among whom I dwell, add up to 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.'

11:22   "Should we slaughter sufficient flocks and herds for them? Or should we gather all the fish of the sea together for them, which they will find sufficient?"

11:23   The LORD said to Moses, " Does the LORD have limited power ? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not."

11:24   So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.

11:25   Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who dwelled upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.

11:26  But two men had remained in the camp; one had the name of Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they dwelled among those who had become registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.

11:27  So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad prophesied in the camp."

11:28   Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, " Moses, my lord, restrain them."

11:29  But Moses said to him, " Have you become jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!"

11:30   Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

11:31   Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

11:32   The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

11:33   While the meat remained still between their teeth, before they could chew it, the anger of the LORD kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.

11:34   So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had demonstrated their greediness.

11:35   From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.