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When the LORD heard, his anger flared up and the LORD’s fire incinerated some of them within the outskirts of the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When the people cried out to Moses, he<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:2 Lit. Moses">a</a></span> prayed to the LORD and the fire stopped. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He then named that place Taberah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:3 The Heb. name Taberah means “burning”">b</a></span> because the LORD’s fire had incinerated some of them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:4 Lit. among them">c</a></span> had an insatiable appetite<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:4 Lit. craved for a craving">d</a></span> for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, “If only somebody would feed us some meat! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But now we can’t stand it anymore,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:6 Lit. now our strength is dried up">e</a></span> because there’s nothing in front of us except this manna.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:7 Lit. bdellium; i.e. a clear gum resin">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>People would go out to gather it, then they would grind it in mills or pound it in mortars, and then they would boil it in pots or make cakes out of it that tasted like butter cakes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it.</p> <p class="heading">Moses Responds</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Moses heard the people weeping throughout their entire families. Everyone gathered at the entrance to their tents so that the LORD was very angry. Moses thought the situation was bad, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>so he<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:11 Lit. Moses">g</a></span> asked the LORD, “Why did you bring all this trouble to your servant? Why haven’t I found favor in your eyes? After all, you’re putting the burden of this entire people on me! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Did I conceive this people or give birth to them, so that you would tell me to carry them near my heart like a wet nurse carries a suckling baby to the land that you promised to their forefathers? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they’re crying in front of me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I cannot carry this whole nation! The burden is too heavy for me! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I’ve found favor in your eyes, because I don’t want to keep staring at all of this<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:15 Lit. at my">h</a></span> misery!”</p> <p class="heading">The Appointment of 70 Elders</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the LORD told Moses, “Gather together for me 70 men who are elders of Israel, men whom you know to be elders of the people and officers over them. Then bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them stand there with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then I’ll come down and speak with you. I’ll take some of the spirit that rests on you and apportion it among them, so that they may help you bear the burden of the people. That way, you won’t bear it by yourself.”</p> <p class="heading">God Threatens to Provide Meat</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“But give this command to the people: ‘You are to consecrate yourselves, because tomorrow you’re going to eat meat, since you’ve complained where the LORD can hear it, “Who can give us meat to eat? After all, life was better with us in Egypt.” Therefore, the LORD is going to give you meat and you’ll eat— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but for a whole month—until it comes out your nostrils and makes you vomit. This is because you’ve despised the LORD, who is among you, and you cried out in his presence by complaining, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”</p> <p class="heading">Moses Doubts God’s Ability</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Moses responded, “I’m with 600,000 people on foot and you’re saying I am to give them enough<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:21 The Heb. lacks enough">i</a></span> meat to eat for a whole month? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What if we were to slaughter our entire inventory of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:22 The Heb. lacks our entire inventory">j</a></span> flocks and herds for them? Would that be enough? What if we could gather all the fish in the sea in nets for them? Would that be enough, either?”</p> <p class="heading">God Rebukes Moses</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the LORD responded to Moses, “Is the LORD short on power?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:23 Lit. hand">k</a></span> You’re now going to witness whether what I say will come to pass or not.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He gathered 70 men from the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The LORD came down in a cloud, spoke to Moses,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:25 Lit. him">l</a></span> and made an apportionment from the spirit who rested on him to the 70 elders. When the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but that was it.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:25 Lit. prophesied, and not again">m</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now two men had remained in camp. One was named Eldad and the other was named Medad. When the spirit rested on them, since they were among those who were listed but had not gone out to the tent, they stayed behind<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:26 The Heb. lacks stayed behind and">n</a></span> and prophesied in the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>In response, Nun’s son Joshua, Moses’ attendant and one of his choice men, exclaimed, “My master Moses! Stop them!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Are you jealous on account of me?” Moses asked in reply. “I wish all of the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Moses—that is, he and the elders of Israel—returned to the camp.</p> <p class="heading">Quails Come to the Camp</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Just then, a wind burst forth from the LORD, who brought quails from the sea and spread them all around the camp, about a day’s journey in each direction, completely encircling the camp about two cubits<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:31 i.e. about three feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches">o</a></span> deep on top of the ground! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:32 i.e. in dry capacity about two and a half gallons by volume">p</a></span> as they spread out all around the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the LORD became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>That’s why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:34 The Heb. name means Graves of Desire">q</a></span> because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:34 Lit. who had great cravings">r</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/11-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Later, the people left Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth and camped there.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 11:2 Lit. <i>Moses</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 11:3 The Heb. name <i>Taberah</i> means “burning”<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 11:4 Lit. <i>among them</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 11:4 Lit. <i>craved for a craving</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 11:6 Lit. <i>now our strength is dried up</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 11:7 Lit. <i>bdellium</i>; i.e. a clear gum resin<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 11:11 Lit. <i>Moses</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 11:15 Lit. <i>at my</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 11:21 The Heb. lacks <i>enough</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 11:22 The Heb. lacks <i>our entire inventory</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 11:23 Lit. <i>hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 11:25 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 11:25 Lit. <i>prophesied, and not again</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 11:26 The Heb. lacks <i>stayed behind and</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 11:31 i.e. about three feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches<br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 11:32 i.e. in dry capacity about two and a half gallons by volume<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 11:34 The Heb. name means <i>Graves of Desire</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 11:34 Lit. <i>who had great cravings</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/numbers/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>