The People Complain to Moses

11 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything they said. Then the Lord’s anger blazed against them, and he sent a fire to rage among them, and he destroyed some of the people in the outskirts of the camp.

¹² Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” And again the fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all.

⁵ and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

³⁵ Then fire blazed forth from the Lord and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.

²² “You also made the Lord angry at Taberah,^[a] Massah,^[b] and Kibroth-hattaavah.^[c]

² So fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and burned them up, and they died there before the Lord.

⁹ Then Moses said to Aaron, “Announce this to the entire community of Israel: ‘Present yourselves before the Lord, for he has heard your complaining.’”

¹⁶ These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

¹⁰ And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.