Verse 5
Numbers 11:5
Bible in Basic English
5
Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:
Original Language Text
hebrew
זָכַ֨רְנוּ֙ אֶת הַ/דָּגָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר נֹאכַ֥ל בְּ/מִצְרַ֖יִם חִנָּ֑ם אֵ֣ת הַ/קִּשֻּׁאִ֗ים וְ/אֵת֙ הָֽ/אֲבַטִּחִ֔ים וְ/אֶת הֶ/חָצִ֥יר וְ/אֶת הַ/בְּצָלִ֖ים וְ/אֶת הַ/שּׁוּמִֽים
English Translation
We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
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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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5
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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9
When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.
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10
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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11
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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12
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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14
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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15
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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16
And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opini...
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17
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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21
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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33
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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