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When the people cried out to Moses, he[a] prayed to the Lord and the fire stopped. He then named that place Taberah,[b] because the Lord’s fire had incinerated some of them.

Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people[c] had an insatiable appetite[d] for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, “If only somebody would feed us some meat!

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:2 Lit. Moses
  2. Numbers 11:3 The Heb. name Taberah means “burning”
  3. Numbers 11:4 Lit. among them
  4. Numbers 11:4 Lit. craved for a craving