Numbers 11:2-4
EasyEnglish Bible
2 So the people asked Moses to help them. And Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire stopped. 3 So that place was called Taberah, because the Lord's fire burned among them there.
4 Some foreign people were travelling with the Israelites.[a] Those people wanted very much to eat better food. So the Israelites wept again. They said, ‘We want meat to eat!
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- 11:4 When the Israelites left Egypt, some foreign people came with them. We do not know why these foreign people came with them. Perhaps some of them were slaves.
Numbers 11:2-4
King James Version
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
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Numbers 11:2-4
English Standard Version
2 Then (A)the people cried out to Moses, (B)and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down. 3 So the name of that place was called (C)Taberah,[a] because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4 Now the (D)rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also (E)wept again and said, (F)“Oh that we had meat to eat!
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- Numbers 11:3 Taberah means burning
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