Numbers 11:1–9

The People Complain

1 Now the people became like athose who complain of adversity bin the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

2 aThe people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire 1died out.

3 So the name of that place was called 1aTaberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.

4 The arabble who were among them 1had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “bWho will give us 2meat to eat?

5 “aWe 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,

6 but now aour 1appetite is gone. There is nothing at all 2to look at except this manna.”

7 aNow the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bbdellium.

8 The people would go about and gather it and grind it 1between 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 2cakes baked with oil.

9 aWhen the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall 1with it.