8 Heb “Moses.”
9 Here is the pattern that will become in the wilderness experience so common—the complaining turns to a cry to Moses, which is then interpreted as a prayer to the Lord, and there is healing. The sequence presents a symbolic lesson, an illustration of the intercession of the Holy Spirit. The NT will say that in times of suffering Christians do not know how to pray, but the Spirit intercedes for them, changing their cries into the proper prayers (Rom 8).

In other versions

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

When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire died down.

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

Then the people screamed to Moses for help, and when he prayed to the Lord, the fire stopped.

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

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

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