Bmidbar (Numbers) - Chapter 11

11:1 The people were complaining in the ears of Mar-Yah. When Mar-Yah heard it, his anger was kindled; and Mar-Yah's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 11:2 The people cried to Mosha; and Mosha prayed to Mar-Yah, and the fire abated. 11:3 The name of that place was called Taberah, because Mar-Yah's fire burnt among them.

11:4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the B'nai Yisrael also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat? 11:5 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; 11:6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at." 11:7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. 11:8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

11:10 Mosha heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Mar-Yah was kindled greatly; and Mosha was displeased. 11:11 Mosha said to Mar-Yah, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, 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?' 11:13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' 11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 11:15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favour in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."

11:16 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Yisrael, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tabernacle, that they may stand there with you. 11:17 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 not bear it yourself alone.

11:18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Mar-Yah, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Mar-Yah will give you flesh, and you will eat. 11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 11:20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Mar-Yah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

11:21 Mosha said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.' 11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"

11:23 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Has Mar-Yah's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."

11:24 Mosha went out, and told the people the words of Mar-Yah; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. 11:25 Mar-Yah came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 11:26 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 11:27 A young man ran, and told Mosha, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

11:28 Yoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Mosha, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord Mosha, forbid them!"

11:29 Mosha said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Mar-Yah's people were prophets, that Mar-Yah would put his Spirit on them!"

11:30 Mosha went into the camp, he and the elders of Yisrael. 11:31 A wind from Mar-Yah went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth. 11:32 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. 11:33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Mar-Yah was kindled against the people, and Mar-Yah struck the people with a very great plague. 11:34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hatta'avah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

11:35 From Kibroth Hatta'avah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.