1And the people were complaining badly in the ears of the LORD; and the LORD heard, and his anger burned, and fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed the end of the camp.2And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire subsided.3And he called the name of that place Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.4And the rabble that was among them craved a craving; and the people of Israel also turned back and wept and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?5We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt without cost, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.6And now our soul is dry; there is nothing at all except the manna before our eyes.7And the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like the appearance of bdellium.8The people roved and gathered and ground it in millstones or beat it in the mortar and boiled it in the pot and made it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of a juicy bit of oil.9And when the dew fell upon the camp at night, the manna would fall upon it.10And Moses heard the people weeping, each man for his family, at the entrance of his tent; and the anger of the LORD burned greatly, and it was evil in the eyes of Moses.11And Moses said to the LORD, Why have you caused evil to your servant, and why have I not found favor in your eyes, to lay the burden of all this people upon me?12Did I conceive all this people, or did I beget them, that you should say to me, Carry him in your bosom as the one who is faithful carries the one who suckles, upon the land that you swore to their fathers?13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they keep weeping upon me, saying, "Give us flesh to eat."14I am not able by myself to carry all this people, for it is too heavy for me.15And if thus you are doing to me, kill me, please, kill me, if I have found favor in your eyes, and let me not see my distress.16And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know, that they are elders of the people and their officers, and take them to the tent of meeting, and let them stand there with you.17And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will reserve some of the spirit that is upon you and put it upon them, and they will carry the burden of the people with you, and you will not carry it alone.18And say to the people, Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh, for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat?" For it was better for us in Egypt. And the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.19You shall not eat it for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days.20Until a month of days, until it comes out from your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and you wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out from Egypt?"21And Moses said, "Six hundred thousand on foot are the people in whose midst I am, and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, and they will eat a month of days.'"22Will flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them and suffice for them, or will all the fish of the sea be gathered for them and suffice for them?23And the LORD said to Moses, Is the hand of the LORD short? Now you shall see whether my word meets you or not.24And Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent.25And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he reserved some of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied and did not continue.26And two men remained in the camp; the name of the one was Eldad and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested upon them—they were among those registered—and they did not go out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.27And a young man ran and told Moses, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.28And Joshua son of Nun, Moses' minister from his youth, answered and said, My lord Moses, restrain them.29And Moses said to him, Are you jealous for me? Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets, that the LORD would put his spirit upon them.30And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.31And a spirit set out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea and left them upon the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on that side, around the camp, and about two cubits upon the face of the land.32And the people arose all that day and all the night and all the next day and gathered the quail; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves, spreading around the camp.33The flesh was still between their teeth, before it was cut off, and the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.34And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who craved.35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out to Hazeroth, and they were at Hazeroth.