Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 11

Num 11:1 And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was
evil in the ears of יהוה. And יהוה heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the
fire of יהוה burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the
camp.
Num 11:2 And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to יהוה,
and the fire died down.
Num 11:3 Then he called the name of the place Taḇ‛ĕrah, because the fire of
יהוה had burned among them.
Num 11:4 And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so
the children of Yisra’ĕl also wept again and said, “Who is giving us meat to
eat?
Num 11:5 “We remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim,
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,
Num 11:6 but now our throat is dried up. There is naught to look at but this
manna!”
Num 11:7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like
the appearance of bdellium.
Num 11:8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or
beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its
taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
Num 11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.
Num 11:10 And Mosheh heard the people weeping throughout their clans,
each man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of יהוה burned
exceedingly. And in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil,
Num 11:11 so Mosheh said to יהוה, “Why have You done evil to Your
servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of
all these people on me?
Num 11:12 “Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought
them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the
foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their
fathers?
Num 11:13 “Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they
weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’
Num 11:14 “I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden
is too heavy for me.
Num 11:15 “And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I
have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”
Num 11:16 Then יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather to Me seventy men of the
elders of Yisra’ĕl, whom you know to be the elders of the people and
officers over them. And bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand
there with you.
Num 11:17 “And I shall come down and speak with you there, and shall take
of the Spirit that is on you, and put on them. And they shall bear the burden of
the people with you, so that you do not bear it yourself alone.
Num 11:18 “And say to the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, and
you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of יהוה, saying,
“Who is giving us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitsrayim.” And
יהוה shall give you meat, and you shall eat.
Num 11:19 ‘You are going to eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days,
nor ten days, nor twenty days,
Num 11:20 but for a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and
becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected יהוה who is
among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we come up out of
Mitsrayim?” ’ ”
Num 11:21 And Mosheh said, “The people in whose midst I am are six
hundred thousand men on foot, and You, You have said, ‘I give them meat to
eat for a month of days.’
Num 11:22 “Could flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient
for them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be
sufficient for them?”
Num 11:23 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Is the arm of יהוה too short? Now see
whether My word meets you or not!”
Num 11:24 And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of יהוה,
and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them
around the Tent.
Num 11:25 And יהוה came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of
the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders.
And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but
did not continue.
Num 11:26 However, two men had remained in the camp. The name of one
was Eldaḏ, and the name of the other Mĕyḏaḏ. And the Spirit rested upon
them. Now they were among those listed, but did not go out to the Tent. And
they prophesied in the camp.
Num 11:27 And a young man ran and informed Mosheh, and said, “Eldaḏ
and Mĕyḏaḏ are prophesying in the camp.”
Num 11:28 And Yehoshua son of Nun, Mosheh’s assistant from his youth,
answered and said, “Mosheh my master, forbid them!”
Num 11:29 Then Mosheh said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Oh, that
all the people of יהוה were prophets, that יהוה would put His Spirit upon
them!”
Num 11:30 And Mosheh returned to the camp, both he and the elders of
Yisra’ĕl.
Num 11:31 And a wind went forth from יהוה, and it brought quail from the
sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and
about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the ground.
Num 11:32 And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the
next day, and gathered the quail. He who has least gathered ten ḥomers. And
they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
Num 11:33 The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed,
and the wrath of יהוה burned against the people, and יהוה smote the people
with an exceeding great plague.
Num 11:34 Then he called the name of that place Qiḇroth Hatta’awah,
because there they buried the people who had lusted.
Num 11:35 From Qiḇroth Hatta’awah the people set out for Ḥatsĕroth – and
they were at Ḥatsĕroth.