Then they are to place on it all the utensils used for ministering at the altar, including the firepans, meat forks, shovels and sprinkling bowls. Over it they are to spread a covering of durable leather and put the poles in place.

Quail from the Lord

The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, ‘If only we had meat to eat!

Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, “Give us meat to eat!”

‘Tell the people: “Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you wailed, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat it.

But Moses said, ‘Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, “I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!”

But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.