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Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.
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Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched.
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So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.
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Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?
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We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
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but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!"
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Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
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The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.
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And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
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Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.
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So Moses said to the Lord, "Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?
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Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fathers?
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Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'