Thematic Bible
Numbers 11:1 (show verse)
Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 11:2 (show verse)
Numbers 11:3 (show verse)
So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
Numbers 11:4 (show verse)
The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
Numbers 11:5 (show verse)
Numbers 11:6 (show verse)
but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna.”
Numbers 11:7 (show verse)
Numbers 11:8 (show verse)
The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
Numbers 11:9 (show verse)
Numbers 11:10 (show verse)
Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased.
Numbers 11:11 (show verse)
Numbers 11:12 (show verse)
Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
Numbers 11:13 (show verse)
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’
Numbers 11:14 (show verse)
Numbers 11:15 (show verse)
Numbers 11:16 (show verse)
The Lord therefore said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17 (show verse)
Numbers 11:18 (show verse)
Say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, “Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat.
Numbers 11:19 (show verse)
You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
Numbers 11:20 (show verse)
Numbers 11:21 (show verse)
But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’
Numbers 11:22 (show verse)
Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
Numbers 11:23 (show verse)
The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.”
Numbers 11:24 (show verse)
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.
Numbers 11:25 (show verse)
Numbers 11:26 (show verse)
But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 (show verse)
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Numbers 11:28 (show verse)
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “Moses, my lord, restrain them.”
Numbers 11:29 (show verse)
But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”
Numbers 11:30 (show verse)
Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.
Numbers 11:31 (show verse)
Numbers 11:32 (show verse)
The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
Numbers 11:33 (show verse)
Numbers 11:34 (show verse)
So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.
Numbers 11:35 (show verse)
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.