Christian Standard Bible

King James Bible

1Now the people began complaining openly before the LORD about hardship. When the LORD heard, his anger burned, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

1And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

2Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

2And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

3So that place was named Taberah, because the LORD's fire had blazed among them.

3And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

4The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, "Who will feed us meat?

4And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

5We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

6But now our appetite is gone; there's nothing to look at but this manna!"

6But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

7The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.

7And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

8The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

8And 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.

9When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

9And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

10Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The LORD was very angry; Moses was also provoked.

10Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

11So Moses asked the LORD, "Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me, and why do you burden me with all these people?

11And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

12Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, 'Carry them at your breast, as a nanny carries a baby,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

12Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

13Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'

13Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

14I can't carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

15If you are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now if I have found favor with you, and don't let me see my misery anymore."

15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

16The LORD answered Moses, "Bring me seventy men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

16And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest 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 thee.

17Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

17And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

18"Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you wept in the LORD's hearing, 'Who will feed us meat? We were better off in Egypt.' The LORD will give you meat and you will eat.

18And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

19You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

19Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20but for a whole month--until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you--because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and wept before him: 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

21But Moses replied, "I'm in the middle of a people with six hundred thousand foot soldiers, yet you say, 'I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.'

21And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

22If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?"

22Shall 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?

23The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's arm weak? Now you will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you."

23And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

24Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He brought seventy men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

24And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

25Then the LORD descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed the Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.

25And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake 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.

26Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them--they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent--and they prophesied in the camp.

26But 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 went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

27A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

27And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

28Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, "Moses, my lord, stop them!"

28And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

29But Moses asked him, "Are you jealous on my account? If only all the LORD's people were prophets and the LORD would place his Spirit on them!"

29And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

30And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

31A wind sent by the LORD came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them all around the camp. They were flying three feet off the ground for about a day's journey in every direction.

31And there went forth a wind from the LORD, 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.

32The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail--the one who took the least gathered fifty bushels--and they spread them out all around the camp.

32And 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 ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

33While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD's anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.

33And while the 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.

34So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.

34And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth and remained there.

35And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission.

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