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<strong>2</strong>
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The people cried out to Moses for help; he
prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.
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<strong>3</strong>
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So the place was named Taberah, <sup data-
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href="javascript:void(0);">a</a></sup> because there the fire of the Lord burned
among them.
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taberah: [This name sounds like the Hebrew for "burning."]
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<strong>4</strong>
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There were foreigners traveling with the
Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves
began to complain: "If only we could have some meat!
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<strong>5</strong>
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In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted,
and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the
onions, and the garlic we had?
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<strong>6</strong>
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But now our strength is gone. There is nothing
at all to eat - nothing but this manna day after day!"
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<strong>7</strong>
<span class="verse-7">
(Manna was like small seeds, whitish yellow in
color. <sup class="verse-reference verse-crossreference"><a
href="javascript:void(0);">1</a></sup>
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<div id="v-11" class="verse font-small">
<strong>11</strong>
<span class="verse-11">
and he said to the Lord, "Why have you treated
me so badly? Why are you displeased with me? Why have you given me the
responsibility for all these people?
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<div id="v-12" class="verse font-small">
<strong>12</strong>
<span class="verse-12">
I didn't create them or bring them to birth!
Why should you ask me to act like a nurse and carry them in my arms like babies all
the way to the land you promised to their ancestors?
</span>
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<div id="v-13" class="verse font-small">
<strong>13</strong>
<span class="verse-13">
Where could I get enough meat for all these
people? They keep whining and asking for meat.
</span>
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<div id="v-14" class="verse font-small">
<strong>14</strong>
<span class="verse-14">
I can't be responsible for all these people by
myself; it's too much for me!
</span>
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<div id="v-15" class="verse font-small">
<strong>15</strong>
<span class="verse-15">
If you are going to treat me like this, have
pity on me and kill me, so that I won't have to endure your cruelty any longer."
</span>
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<div id="v-16" class="verse font-small">
<strong>16</strong>
<span class="verse-16">
The Lord said to Moses, "Assemble seventy
respected men who are recognized as leaders of the people, bring them to me at the
Tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.
</span>
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<div id="v-17" class="verse font-small">
<strong>17</strong>
<span class="verse-17">
I will come down and speak with you there, and
I will take some of the spirit I have given you and give it to them. Then they can
help you bear the responsibility for these people, and you will not have to bear it
alone.
</span>
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<div id="v-18" class="verse font-small">
<strong>18</strong>
<span class="verse-18">
Now tell the people, "Purify yourselves for
tomorrow; you will have meat to eat. The Lord has heard you whining and saying that
you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Now the Lord
will give you meat, and you will have to eat it.
</span>
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<div id="v-19" class="verse font-small">
<strong>19</strong>
<span class="verse-19">
You will have to eat it not just for one or two
days, or five, or ten, or even twenty days,
</span>
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<div id="v-20" class="verse font-small">
<strong>20</strong>
<span class="verse-20">
but for a whole month, until it comes out of
your ears, until you are sick of it. This will happen because you have rejected the
Lord who is here among you and have complained to him that you should never have
left Egypt.' "
</span>
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<div id="v-21" class="verse font-small">
<strong>21</strong>
<span class="verse-21">
Moses said to the Lord, "Here I am leading
600,000 people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month?
</span>
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<div id="v-22" class="verse font-small">
<strong>22</strong>
<span class="verse-22">
Could enough cattle and sheep be killed to
satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?"
</span>
</div>
<div id="v-23" class="verse font-small">
<strong>23</strong>
<span class="verse-23">
"Is there a limit to my power?" the Lord
answered. "You will soon see whether what I have said will happen or not!"
</span>
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<div id="v-24" class="verse font-small">
<strong>24</strong>
<span class="verse-24">
So Moses went out and told the people what the
Lord had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the Tent.
</span>
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<div id="v-25" class="verse font-small">
<strong>25</strong>
<span class="verse-25">
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke
to him. He took some of the spirit he had given to Moses and gave it to the seventy
leaders. When the spirit came on them, they began to shout like prophets, but not
for long.
</span>
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<div id="v-26" class="verse font-small">
<strong>26</strong>
<span class="verse-26">
Two of the seventy leaders, Eldad and Medad,
had stayed in the camp and had not gone out to the Tent. There in the camp the
spirit came on them, and they too began to shout like prophets.
</span>
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<div id="v-27" class="verse font-small">
<strong>27</strong>
<span class="verse-27">
A young man ran out to tell Moses what Eldad
and Medad were doing.
</span>
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<div id="v-28" class="verse font-small">
<strong>28</strong>
<span class="verse-28">
Then Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses'
helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses, "Stop them, sir!"
</span>
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<div id="v-29" class="verse font-small">
<strong>29</strong>
<span class="verse-29">
Moses answered, "Are you concerned about my
interests? I wish that the Lord would give his spirit to all his people and make
all of them shout like prophets!"
</span>
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<div id="v-30" class="verse font-small">
<strong>30</strong>
<span class="verse-30">
Then Moses and the seventy leaders of Israel
went back to camp.
</span>
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<div id="v-31" class="verse font-small">
<strong>31</strong>
<span class="verse-31">
Suddenly the Lord sent a wind that brought
quails from the sea, flying three feet above the ground. They settled on the camp
and all around it for miles and miles in every direction. <sup data-verseid="31"
data-identifier="fn5" class="verse-reference verse-footnote"><a
href="javascript:void(0);">b</a></sup>
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sea, flying . . . direction; [or] sea. They settled in the camp and all around it
for miles and miles in every direction, until they were piled up three feet deep on
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<strong>32</strong>
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So all that day, all night, and all the next
day, the people worked catching quails; no one gathered less than fifty bushels.
They spread them out to dry all around the camp.
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<div id="v-33" class="verse font-small">
<strong>33</strong>
<span class="verse-33">
While there was still plenty of meat for them
to eat, the Lord became angry with the people and caused an epidemic to break out
among them.
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<div id="v-34" class="verse font-small">
<strong>34</strong>
<span class="verse-34">
That place was named Kibroth Hattaavah (which
means "Graves of Craving"), because there they buried the people who had craved
meat.
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<div id="v-35" class="verse font-small">
<strong>35</strong>
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From there the people moved to Hazeroth, where
they made camp.
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