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Numbers 11:1-35 — Fire from the Lord; Quail

Num.11.1-35

¹Now the people began complaining in the hearing of the LORD about their hardship , and when the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and the fire of the LORD blazed among them and consumed the edge of the camp. ²Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. ³So that place was called Taberah , because the fire of the LORD had burned among them. ⁴And the rabble among them gave way to craving, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?” ⁵We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, along with the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. ⁶But now our strength is dried up; there is nothing at all before our eyes except this manna. ⁷Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like the appearance of bdellium. ⁸The people went about and gathered it, and ground it with millstones or crushed it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot and made it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of rich oil. ⁹And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell with it. ¹⁰Moses heard the people weeping by their families, each man at the entrance of his tent, and the LORD's anger burned greatly, and it was displeasing in the eyes of Moses. ¹¹And Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt so badly with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you have laid the burden of all this people on me?” ¹²“Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your arms, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to their fathers?” ¹³“Where am I to get meat to give all this people? For they keep weeping to me, saying, 'Give us meat, so that we may eat.'” ¹⁴“I am not able to carry all this people by myself, because it is too heavy for me.” ¹⁵“If this is how you will treat me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and let me not see my misery.” ¹⁶Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders of the people and its officers, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them stand there with you.” ¹⁷“And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it alone.” ¹⁸And you shall say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.' ¹⁹You shall eat it not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, ²⁰but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, 'Why did we ever come out of Egypt?' ²¹But Moses said, “The people in whose midst I am number six hundred thousand men on foot, and yet you have said, 'I will give them meat, and they shall eat for a whole month.'” ²²“Would flocks and herds be slaughtered for them and be enough for them? Or if all the fish of the sea were gathered for them, would it be enough for them?” ²³And the LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD's hand grown short? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.” ²⁴So Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy men from the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent. ²⁵Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy men, the elders. And when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not continue. ²⁶But two men had remained in the camp. The name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those enrolled, but they had not gone 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.” ²⁸Then Joshua son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his chosen men, answered and said, “My lord Moses, restrain them.” ²⁹But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!” ³⁰Then Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel. ³¹Then a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on that side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground . ³²And the people rose up all that day and all that 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 all around the camp. ³³While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was gone, the LORD's anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. ³⁴So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah , because there they buried the people who had craved. ³⁵From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

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4/11/2026

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