Numbers 11:4-15 - Complaints About Food

⁴ And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic. ⁶ But now our souls are dried away, for our eyes look on nothing else, save upon Manna."

⁷ The Manna was as it had been coriander seed, and to see to like bdellium. ⁸ And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars and boke it in pans and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like unto the taste of an oilcake. ⁹ And when the dew fell about the host in the night, the Manna fell therewith.

¹⁰ And when Moses heard the people weep in their households every man in the door of his tent, then the wrath of the LORD waxed hot exceedingly: and it grieved Moses also. ¹¹ And Moses said unto the LORD, "Wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour in thy sight, seeing that thou puttest the weight of this people upon me? ¹² Have I conceived all this people, or have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, 'Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurse beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?' ¹³ Where 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, for it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."