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Israel Complains

11 Eventually, the people began complaining about their distress, and the Lord heard them. When the Lord heard, his anger flared up and the Lord’s fire incinerated some of them within the outskirts of the camp. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:2 Lit. Moses
  2. Numbers 11:3 The Heb. name Taberah means “burning”

The Israelites Complain

11 And it happened, the people were like those who complain of hardship[a] in the hearing[b] of Yahweh, and Yahweh became angry,[c] and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down. And he called the name of that place Taberah[d] because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:1 Literally “complain of bad”
  2. Numbers 11:1 Literally “in the ears”
  3. Numbers 11:1 Literally “his nose became hot”
  4. Numbers 11:3 This word is difficult, but some modern translations suggest the word in Hebrew means “burning” (see NRSV, NASB)