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11 When the people became murmurers, it displeased the LORD. And the LORD heard it; therefore, His wrath was kindled. And the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the outermost part of the camp.
2 Then the people cried to Moses. And when Moses prayed to 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 a number of people who were among them fell into lust and turned away. And the children of Israel also wept, and said, “Who shall give us meat to eat?
5 “We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6 “But now our soul is dried away. We can see nothing but this Manna.”
7 Now, the Manna was like coriander seed and its color like the color of bdellium.
8 The people went about and gathered and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars and baked it in a cauldron and made cakes from it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.
9 And when the dew fell down upon the camp at night, the Manna fell with it.
10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent. And the wrath of the LORD was greatly kindled. Moses was also grieved.
11 And Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, seeing You have put me in charge of all these people?
12 “Have I conceived all these people? Or have I begotten them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse bears the sucking child, to the land which You swore to their fathers?’
13 “Where should I get meat to give to all these people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat so that we may eat.’
14 “I am not able to bear all these people alone, for it is too heavy for me.
15 “Therefore, if You deal this way with me, please kill me (if I have found favor in Your sight) so that I do not see my misery.”
16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather to Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and governors over them. And bring them to the Tabernacle of the Congregation. And let them stand there with you.
17 “And I will come down and talk with you there and take from the Spirit Which is upon you and put it upon them. And they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so you shall not bear it alone.
18 “Furthermore, you shall say to the people, ‘Be sanctified for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat. For you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who shall give us meat to eat? For we were better in Egypt.” Therefore, the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
19 ‘You shall eat not for one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20 ‘but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and is loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD, Who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?”’”
21 And Moses said, “Among my people there are six-hundred thousand foot soldiers; and You say, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a month.’
22 “Shall the sheep and the cattle be slaughtered for them to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them?”
23 And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? You shall see now whether My Word shall happen to you or not.”
24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD and gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and set them all around the Tabernacle.
25 Then the LORD came down in a cloud and spoke to him and took from the Spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy ancient men. And when the Spirit rested upon them, then they prophesied and did not cease.
26 But two of the men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad. And the name of the other, Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them, for they were of those who were listed but did not go out to the Tabernacle. And they prophesied in the camp.
27 Then, a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28 And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, “Are you jealous for my sake? Indeed, I wish that all the LORD’s people were Prophets, and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them.”
30 And Moses returned into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 Then there went forth a wind from the LORD and brought quails from the sea and let them fall upon the camp, a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, all over the camp, about two cubits above the earth.
32 Then, the people arose all that day and all that night and all the next day and gathered the quails. He who gathered the least, gathered ten homers full. And they spread them throughout for their use, all around the camp.
33 While the meat was still between their teeth, `before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people. And the LORD struck the people with an exceedingly great plague.
34 So, the name of the place was called, Kibroth Hattaavah. For there they buried the people who lusted.
35 From Kibroth Hattaavah, the people took their journey to Hazeroth and stayed at Hazeroth.
12 Afterward, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the woman from Ethiopia whom he had married (for he had married a woman from Ethiopia).
2 And they said, “What? Has the LORD spoken only by Moses? Has He not spoken also by us?” And the LORD heard.
3 Now, Moses was a very humble man, above all the men who were upon the Earth.
4 And by and by, the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tabernacle of the Congregation.” And they three came forth.
5 Then the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the Tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both came forth.
6 And He said, “Hear now My Words. If there is a Prophet of the LORD among you, I will be known to him by a vision, and will speak to him by dream.
7 “My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all My House.
8 “To him I will speak mouth to mouth, and by vision, and not in dark words. But he shall see the similitude of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant, Moses?”
9 Thus the LORD was very angry with them and departed.
10 Also, the cloud departed from the Tabernacle. And behold, Miriam was leprous like snow. And Aaron looked at Miriam. And behold, she was leprous.
11 Then Aaron said to Moses, “Alas, my lord, I beg you, do not lay the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed, and in which we have sinned.
12 “Please do not let her be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
13 Then Moses cried to the LORD, saying, “O God, I beg You, heal her now.”
14 And the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, should she not have been ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days. And afterward she shall be received.”
15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days. And the people did not set out until Miriam was brought in again.
13 Then afterward, the people set out from Hazeroth and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
2 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
3 “Send men out to search the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. You shall send a man from every tribe of their fathers, all rulers among them.”
4 Then Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran at the Commandment of the LORD. All those men were heads of the children of Israel.
5 Now their names are these: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
6 of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
7 of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
8 of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
9 of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
10 of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
11 of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
12 of the tribe of Joseph (of the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;
13 of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
14 of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
15 of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
16 of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
17 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called the name of Hoshea, the son of Nun, Joshua.
18 So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way toward the south; and go up into the mountains.
19 “And consider the land, what it is. And the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many.
20 “Also, the land that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad and what cities that they dwell in, whether they dwell in tents or in walled towns.
21 “And the land, whether it is fat or lean, whether there are trees in it or not. And be of good courage. And bring from the fruit of the land.” For then was the time of the first ripe grapes.
22 So they went up and searched out the land, from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to go to Hamath.
23 And they ascended toward the south and came to Hebron, where were Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak. And Hebron was built seven years before Zoan, in Egypt.
24 Then they came to the river of Eshcol. And there they cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it upon a bar between two of them, and brought some pomegranates and some figs.
25 That place was called the River Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there.
26 Then, after forty days, they turned away from searching out the land.
27 And they came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all the Congregation of the children of Israel, in the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh. And they brought tidings to them and to all the Congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
28 And they told him, and said, “We came to the land where you have sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And here is some of its fruit.
29 “Nevertheless, the people are strong who dwell in the land and the cities are walled and exceedingly great. And moreover, we saw the sons of Anak there.
30 “The Amalekites dwell in the south country. And the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coasts of Jordan.”
31 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for undoubtedly we shall overcome it.”
32 But the men who went up with him, said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than us.”
33 So they brought back a bad report of the land which they had searched for the children of Israel, saying, “The land which we have gone through to search is a land that eats up its inhabitants. For all the people we saw in it were men of great stature.
34 “For there we saw giants (the sons of Anak, who come from giants), so that we seemed in our own sight like grasshoppers. And so we were in their sight.”
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