Verse 1
Numbers 11:1
Bible in Basic English
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Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֤י הָ/עָם֙ כְּ/מִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים רַ֖ע בְּ/אָזְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ וַ/יִּ֣חַר אַפּ֔/וֹ וַ/תִּבְעַר בָּ/ם֙ אֵ֣שׁ יְהוָ֔ה וַ/תֹּ֖אכַל בִּ/קְצֵ֥ה הַֽ/מַּחֲנֶֽה
English Translation
And the people were like murmurers, bad in the ears of the Lord, and the Lord heard, and His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed at the outskirts of the camp.
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Chapter 11 Context
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Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire...
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And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.
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So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.
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And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel,...
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Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every...
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But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our...
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Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.
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The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to pow...
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When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.
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And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great,...
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And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, t...
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Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your a...
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Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us f...
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I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
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If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes;...
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And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opini...
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And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on yo...
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And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food:...
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Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days;
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But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have go...
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Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have sai...
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Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together...
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And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true...
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And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible...
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Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the s...
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But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spiri...
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And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-c...
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Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My...
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And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were proph...
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Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.
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Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, a...
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And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest...
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But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was mo...
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So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the peo...
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From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and there they put up their tents.
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