English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 11, verse 9 in Hcsb Version

Numbers 11 : 1 (HCSB)

Now the people began complaining openly before the LORD about hardship. When the LORD heard, His anger burned, and the fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11 : 2 (HCSB)

Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Numbers 11 : 3 (HCSB)

So that place was named Taberah, because the LORD's fire had blazed among them.

Numbers 11 : 4 (HCSB)

Contemptible people among them had a strong craving *for other food . The Israelites cried again and said, "Who will feed us meat?

Numbers 11 : 5 (HCSB)

We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 11 : 6 (HCSB)

But now our appetite is gone; there's nothing to look at but this manna!"

Numbers 11 : 7 (HCSB)

The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.

Numbers 11 : 8 (HCSB)

The people walked around and gathered *it . They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

Numbers 11 : 9 (HCSB)

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Numbers 11 : 10 (HCSB)

Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents. The LORD was very angry; Moses was also provoked.

Numbers 11 : 11 (HCSB)

So Moses asked the LORD, "Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?

Numbers 11 : 12 (HCSB)

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so You should tell me, 'Carry them at your breast, as a nursing woman carries a baby,' to the land that You swore to *give their fathers?

Numbers 11 : 13 (HCSB)

Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: 'Give us meat to eat!'

Numbers 11 : 14 (HCSB)

"I can't carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

Numbers 11 : 15 (HCSB)

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don't let me see my misery *any more ."

Numbers 11 : 16 (HCSB)

The LORD answered Moses, "Bring Me 70 men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

Numbers 11 : 17 (HCSB)

Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put *the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

Numbers 11 : 18 (HCSB)

"Tell the people: Purify yourselves *in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the LORD: 'Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.' The LORD will give you meat and you will eat.

Numbers 11 : 19 (HCSB)

You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or 10 days, or 20 days,

Numbers 11 : 20 (HCSB)

but for a whole month-- until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you-- because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and cried to Him: 'Why did we ever leave Egypt?'"

Numbers 11 : 21 (HCSB)

But Moses replied, "I'm in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say, 'I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.'

Numbers 11 : 22 (HCSB)

If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?"

Numbers 11 : 23 (HCSB)

The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you."

Numbers 11 : 24 (HCSB)

Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He brought 70 men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Numbers 11 : 25 (HCSB)

Then the LORD descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed *the Spirit on the 70 elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.

Numbers 11 : 26 (HCSB)

Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them-- they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent-- and they prophesied in the camp.

Numbers 11 : 27 (HCSB)

A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Numbers 11 : 28 (HCSB)

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, "Moses, my lord, stop them!"

Numbers 11 : 29 (HCSB)

But Moses asked him, "Are you jealous on my account? If only all the LORD's people were prophets, and the LORD would place His Spirit on them."

Numbers 11 : 30 (HCSB)

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Numbers 11 : 31 (HCSB)

A wind sent by the LORD came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped *them at the camp all around, three feet off the ground, about a day's journey in every direction.

Numbers 11 : 32 (HCSB)

The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail-- the one who took the least gathered 33 bushels-- and they spread them out all around the camp.

Numbers 11 : 33 (HCSB)

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD's anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.

Numbers 11 : 34 (HCSB)

So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved *the meat .

Numbers 11 : 35 (HCSB)

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth and remained there.