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Numbers
Chapter 11
1
And when the people complained,
it
displeased Jehovah/God.
And
Jehovah/God heard it;
and
His anger was kindled;
and
the fire of Jehovah/God burnt among them,
and
consumed those who were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
2
And the people cried unto Moses;
and
when Moses prayed unto Jehovah/God,
the
fire was quenched.
3
And he called the name of the place Taberah
{Tab`erah - means 'burning'}.
Because
the fire of Jehovah/God burnt among them.
4
And the 'mixed multitude'/rabble
who
were among them
'desired
themselves'/'lusted after'
{a lusting for bodily appetites like food and water}.
And
the children of Israel also wept again, and said,
Who
shall give us flesh to eat?
5
We remember the 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 dried away.
There
is nothing at all, beside this manna,
before
our eyes.
{Note:
This group hated the look and taste of manna. They were negative to
God and His Word. The manna represents God and His Word - to some it
is tasty and wonderful. To these, it was disgusting.}
7
And the manna was as coriander seed,
and
the color thereof as the color of bdellium.
8
And the people went about, and gathered it,
and
ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar,
and
baked it in pans, and made cakes of it.
And
the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
9
And when the dew 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 anger of Jehovah/God was kindled greatly;
Moses
also was displeased.
11
And Moses said unto Jehovah/God,
Why
have You afflicted Your servant?
And
why have I not found favor in Your sight . . .
that
You lay the burden of all this people {the rabble}
upon
me?
12
Have I conceived all this people?
Have
I begotten them, that You should say unto me,
Carry
them in your bosom,
as
a nursing father bears the sucking child,
unto
the land which You swore unto their fathers?
13
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?
For
they weep unto me, saying,
Give
us flesh, that we may eat.
14
I am not able to bear all this people alone,
because
it is too heavy for me.
15
And if You deal thus with me, kill me,
Please/'I
pray you', out of hand,
if
I have found favor in Your sight;
and
let me not see my wretchedness.
16
And Jehovah/God said unto Moses,
Gather
unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel,
whom
you know to be the elders of the people,
and
officers over them;
and
bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation,
that
they may stand there with you.
17
And I will come down and talk with you there.
And
I will take of the spirit which is upon you,
and
will put it upon them;
and
they shall bear the burden of the people with you,
that
you bear it not yourself alone.
18
And say you unto the people,
Sanctify
yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh.
For
you have wept in the ears of Jehovah/God, saying,
Who
shall give us flesh to eat?
For
it was well with us in Egypt.
Therefore
Jehovah/God will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
19
You shall not eat one day, nor two days,
nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20
but
even a whole month,
until
it come out at your nostrils,
and
it be loathsome unto you . . .
because
that you have despised Jehovah/God
Who
is among you,
and
have wept before Him, saying,
Why
came we forth out of Egypt?
21
And Moses said,
The
people, among whom I am,
are
six hundred thousand footmen;
and
You have said, I will give them flesh,
that
they may eat a whole month.
22
Shall the 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 Jehovah/God said unto Moses,
Has
Jehovah/God's hand grown/waxed short?
{idiom meaning has God's Omnipotence somehow gotten less?}
You
will see now whether My Word shall
come
to pass unto you or not.
24
And Moses went out,
and
told the people the words of Jehovah/God,
and
gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people,
and
set them round about the tabernacle.
25
And Jehovah/God came down in a cloud,
and
spoke unto him,
and
took 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 prophesied,
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 those who were written,
but
went 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 Joshua, the son of Nun,
the
servant of Moses,
one
of his young men, answered and said,
My
lord Moses, forbid them.
29
And Moses said unto him, Do you envy . . . for my sake?
I
wish that all Jehovah/God's people were prophets,
and
that Jehovah/God 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 a wind from Jehovah/God,
and
brought quails from the sea,
and
let them fall by the camp,
as
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
who gathered least gathered ten homers.
And
they spread them all abroad
for
themselves round about the camp.
33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth,
ere
it was chewed, the wrath of Jehovah/God
was
kindled against the people,
and
Jehovah/God smote the people with a very great plague.
34
And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah
{Qibrowth hat-Ta'avah - means 'graves of lust'}.
Because
there they buried the people who lusted.
35
And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah
unto
Hazeroth
{Chatserowth - name means 'settlement'}
and
abode at Hazeroth.
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