Numbers 11

Numbers Chapter 11 KJV

1The burning at Taberah is quenched by Moses' prayer. 4The people lust for flesh, and lothe manna. 10Moses complaineth of his charge. 16God promiseth to divide the burden of it among seventy elders, and to give the people flesh for a month. 21Moses' faith is staggered. 24God giveth of his spirit unto the seventy elders. 31Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth-hattaavah.
1 And when the people acomplained, it bdispleased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; 1and his anger was kindled; and the 2fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in 3the uttermost parts of the camp.
2 And the people 1cried unto Moses; and when Moses 2prayed unto the Lord, the fire was aquenched.
3 And he called the name of the place aTaberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
4 ¶ And the 1mixt multitude that was among them afell a lusting: and the children of Israel also bwept again, and said, 2Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 1We remember 2the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul is 1dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
7 And 1the manna was as coriander seed, and the acolour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
8 and the people went 1about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and 2baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of 3fresh oil.
9 And when the 1dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
10 ¶ Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the 1anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou 1afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, 1Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou 2swarest unto their fathers?
13 Whence 1should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
14 1I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15 And if thou deal thus with me, 1kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not 2see my wretchedness.
16 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me 1seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and 2officers over them; and bring them 3unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
17 And I will 1come down and talk with thee there: and I will 2take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall 3bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
18 And say thou unto the people, 1Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, 2Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord 3will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
20 but even a whole amonth, until 1it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have 2despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, 3Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are 1six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
22 Shall 1the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
23 And the Lord said unto Moses, Is 1the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether 2my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
24 ¶ And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and 1gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
25 And the Lord 1came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and 2took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they 3prophesied, and did not cease.
26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but 1went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
28 And 1Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, 2forbid them.
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? 1would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 ¶ And there went forth 1a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, aas it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered 1ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
33 And while 1the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place aKibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
35 and the people 1journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and aabode at Hazeroth.
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