Fire From the Lord

11 Now the people complained(A) about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord,(B) and when he heard them his anger was aroused.(C) Then fire from the Lord burned among them(D) and consumed(E) some of the outskirts of the camp. When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed(F) to the Lord(G) and the fire died down. So that place was called Taberah,[a](H) because fire from the Lord had burned among them.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:3 Taberah means burning.

    I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
    I would march against them in battle;
    I would set them all on fire.(A)

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12 The peoples will be burned to ashes;(A)
    like cut thornbushes(B) they will be set ablaze.(C)

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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
    circumcise your hearts,(A)
    you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or my wrath(B) will flare up and burn like fire(C)
    because of the evil(D) you have done—
    burn with no one to quench(E) it.

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20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(A) Lord says: My anger(B) and my wrath will be poured(C) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(D)

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