Verse 13
Numbers 11:13
Free Bible Version
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I can't go on carrying all these people by myself—it's just too much.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מֵ/אַ֤יִן לִ/י֙ בָּשָׂ֔ר לָ/תֵ֖ת לְ/כָל הָ/עָ֣ם הַ/זֶּ֑ה כִּֽי יִבְכּ֤וּ עָלַ/י֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר תְּנָ/ה לָּ֥/נוּ בָשָׂ֖ר וְ/נֹאכֵֽלָה
English Translation
There is no flesh for me to give to all this people, for they will weep over me, saying, "Give us flesh to eat."
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Chapter 11 Context
1
It wasn't long before the people started to complain about how much they were suffering. When the Lo...
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The people cried to Moses for help. He prayed to the Lord and the fire subsided.
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So that place was named Taberah, because the fire from the Lord burned them.
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A group of troublemakers among them had such intense food cravings they affected the Israelites who...
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5
We think back to all the fish we ate in Egypt that didn't cost us anything, as well as the cucumbers...
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We're fading away here! The only thing we ever see is this manna!”
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7
Manna looked like coriander seeds, light in color like gum resin.
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The people would go out and collect it, grind it up in a mill or crush it in a mortar. Then they wou...
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9
Moses heard all the families crying at the entrance to their tents. The Lord became very angry, and...
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10
He asked the Lord, “Why have you made things so tough for me, your servant? Why are you so unhappy w...
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11
Are they my children? Did I give birth to them, so you could tell me, ‘Hold them close to your chest...
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Where am I supposed to get meat for all of them? They keep on complaining to me, ‘Get us some meat t...
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I can't go on carrying all these people by myself—it's just too much.
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If this is the way you're going to treat me, then please just kill me now so I don't have to face ho...
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15
The Lord told Moses, “Bring before me seventy Israelite elders who you know are respected as leaders...
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16
I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit you have and give it to the...
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17
Tell the people: Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you'll have meat to eat, because you were complaini...
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You're going to eat it, not for just a day or two, and not for five or ten or twenty days.
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You're going to eat it for a whole month until it makes you vomit and it comes out through your nost...
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20
But Moses replied, “Here I am with 600,000 people and you're telling me, ‘I'm going to give them mea...
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21
Even if all our flocks and herds were slaughtered, would that be enough for them? Even if all the fi...
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“Doesn't the Lord have the power to do that?” the Lord responded. “Now you're going to find out whet...
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23
Moses went and shared with the people what the Lord said. He summoned seventy elders of the people a...
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24
Then the Lord came down and talked to him. The Lord took some of the Spirit Moses had and gave it to...
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However, two men named Eldad and Medad had stayed behind in the camp. The Spirit came on them too. (...
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A young lad ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
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27
Joshua, son of Nun, who had been Moses' assistant since he was young, reacted, saying, “Moses, my lo...
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28
“Are you jealous for my reputation?” Moses replied. “I wish that every one of the Lord's people were...
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The Lord sent a wind that blew quail in from the sea and deposited them near the camp. They covered...
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30
All through that day and night, and all through the next day, the people went on collecting the quai...
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31
But while the people were still biting into the meat, before they even chewed it down, the Lord show...
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32
They named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because that was where they buried the people who had these...
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Then they moved on from Kibroth-hattaavah to Hazeroth, where they stayed for some time.
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