Num 11:2 The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.

Num 11:3 So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.

Num 11:4 The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat?

Num 11:5 We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

Num 11:6 but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna."

Num 11:7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

Num 11:8 The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Num 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Num 11:10 Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased.

Num 11:11 So Moses said to the Lord, "Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

Num 11:12 Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers'?

Num 11:13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat that we may eat!'

Num 11:14 I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.

Num 11:15 So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness."

Num 11:16 The Lord therefore said to Moses, "Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

Num 11:17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.

Num 11:18 Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, "Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat.

Num 11:19 You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

Num 11:20 but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?"'"

Num 11:21 But Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.'

Num 11:22 Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"

Num 11:23 The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not."

Num 11:24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.

Num 11:25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.

Num 11:26 But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.

Num 11:27 So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

Num 11:28 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, "Moses, my lord, restrain them."

Num 11:29 But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!"

Num 11:30 Then Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

Num 11:31 Now there went forth a wind from the Lord and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

Num 11:32 The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

Num 11:33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very severe plague.

Num 11:34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.

Num 11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

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Num 12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman);

Num 12:2 and they said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?" And the Lord heard it.

Num 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)

Num 12:4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, "You three come out to the tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.

Num 12:5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and He called Aaron and Miriam. When they had both come forward,

Num 12:6 He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream.

Num 12:7 "Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household;

Num 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"

Num 12:9 So the anger of the Lord burned against them and He departed.

Num 12:10 But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous.

Num 12:11 Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

Num 12:12 Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb!"

Num 12:13 Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"

Num 12:14 But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again."

Num 12:15 So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.

Num 12:16 Afterward, however, the people moved out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

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Num 13:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,

Num 13:2 "Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one a leader among them."

Num 13:3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

Num 13:4 These then were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;

Num 13:5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

Num 13:6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;

Num 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

Num 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

Num 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

Num 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

Num 13:11 from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;

Num 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

Num 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;

Num 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

Num 13:15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Num 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

Num 13:17 When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, "Go up there into the Negev; then go up into the hill country.

Num 13:18 See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

Num 13:19 How is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications?

Num 13:20 How is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

Num 13:21 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.

Num 13:22 When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Num 13:23 Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

Num 13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

Num 13:25 When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

Num 13:26 they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Num 13:27 Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Num 13:28 Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Num 13:29 Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan."

Num 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it."

Num 13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us."

Num 13:32 So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

Num 13:33 There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."