8The 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 lits taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.
9And mwhen the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and nthe anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.
11oSo 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 4burden of all these people on me?
12“Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, p‘Carry them in your bosom, as a qguardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You rswore5 to their fathers?
13s“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.’
14t“I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
15“If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and udo not let me see my wretchedness!”
The Seventy Elders
16So the LORD said to Moses: “Gather to Me vseventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and wofficers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17“Then I will come down and talk with you there. xI will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.
18“Then you shall say to the people, 6‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept yin the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.
19‘You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20z‘but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have adespised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, b“Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”
21And Moses said, c“The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’
22d“Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?”
23And the LORD said to Moses, e“Has7 the LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether fwhat I say will happen to you or not.”
24So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he ggathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.
25Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, hwhen the Spirit rested upon them, that ithey prophesied, 8although they never did so again.
26But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who jhad not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp.
27And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, kforbid them!”
29Then Moses said to him, “Are you 9zealous for my sake? lOh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!”
30And Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.
The LORD Sends Quail
31Now a mwind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
32And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten nhomers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
33But while the omeat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
34So he called the name of that place 10Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.
35pFrom Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Hazeroth, and camped at Hazeroth.
Numbers 12
Dissension of Aaron and Miriam
1Then aMiriam and Aaron 1spoke bagainst Moses because of the 2Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for che had married an Ethiopian woman.
2So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through dMoses? eHas He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD fheard it.
3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)
4gSuddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
5hThen the LORD came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.
6Then He said,
“Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the LORD, make Myself known to him iin a vision;
I speak to him jin a dream.
7Not so with kMy servant Moses;
l He is faithful in all mMy house.
8I speak with him nface to face,
Even oplainly,3 and not in 4dark sayings;
And he sees pthe form of the LORD.
Why then qwere you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”
9So the anger of the LORD was aroused against them, and He departed.
10And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, rsuddenly Miriam became sleprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.
11So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please tdo not lay 5this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.
12“Please udo not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”
13So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “Please vheal her, O God, I pray!”
14Then the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but wspit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be xshut6 out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”
15ySo Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.
16And afterward the people moved from zHazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13
Spies Sent into Canaan
(Deut. 1:19–33)
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2a“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”
3So Moses sent them bfrom the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
4Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;
5from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
6cfrom the tribe of Judah, dCaleb the son of Jephunneh;
7from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
8from the tribe of Ephraim, 1Hoshea the son of Nun;
9from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
10from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
11from the tri
be of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
12from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
13from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
14from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
15from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to 2spy out the land. And Moses called eHoshea3 the son of Nun, Joshua.
17Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to fthe mountains,
18“and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;
19“whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;
20“whether the land is 4rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. gBe of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
21So they went up and spied out the land hfrom the Wilderness of Zin as far as iRehob, near the entrance of jHamath.
22And they went up through the South and came to kHebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of lAnak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23mThen they came to the 5Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
24The place was called the Valley of 6Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.
25And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
26Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at nKadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
27Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly 7flows with omilk and honey, pand this is its fruit.
28“Nevertheless the qpeople who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of rAnak there.
29s“The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
30Then tCaleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31uBut the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
32And they vgave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and wall the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
33“There we saw the 8giants (xthe descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ylike9 grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were zin their sight.”
Numbers 14
Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan
1So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people awept that night.
2bAnd all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3“Why has the LORD brought us to this land to 1fall by the sword, that our wives and cchildren should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4So they said to one another, d“Let us select a leader and ereturn to Egypt.”
5Then Moses and Aaron 2fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
7and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: f“The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
8“If the LORD gdelights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, h‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
9“Only ido not rebel against the LORD, jnor fear the people of the land, for kthey3 are our bread; their protection has departed from them, land the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”
10mAnd all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now nthe glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
Moses Intercedes for the People
11Then the LORD said to Moses: “How long will these people oreject4 Me? And how long will they not pbelieve Me, with all the 5signs which I have performed among them?
12“I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will qmake of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13And rMoses said to the LORD: s“Then the Egyptians will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people up from among them,
14“and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have theard that You, LORD, are among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
15“Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,
16‘Because the LORD was not uable to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He killed them in the wilderness.’
17“And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,
18v‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, wvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
19x“Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, yaccording to the greatness of Your mercy, just zas You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20Then the LORD said: “I have pardoned, aaccording to your word;
21“but truly, as I live, ball the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD—
22c“because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now dthese ten times, and have not heeded My voice,
23“they certainly shall not esee the land of which I 6swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
24“But My servant fCaleb, because he has a different spirit in him and ghas followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
25“Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and hmove out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
Death Sentence on the Rebels
26And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
27i“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? jI have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.
28“Say to them, k‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
29‘The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, lall of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
30m‘Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I 7swore I would make you dwell in.
31n‘But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall 8know the land which oyou have despised.
32‘But as for you, pyour9 carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
33‘And your sons shall qbe 10shepherds in the wilderness rforty years, and sbear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34t‘According to the number of the d
ays in which you spied out the land, uforty days, for each day you shall bear your 11guilt one year, namely forty years, vand you shall know My 12rejection.
35w‘I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all xthis evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
36Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,
37those very men who brought the evil report about the land, ydied by the plague before the LORD.
38zBut Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.
A Futile Invasion Attempt
(Deut. 1:41–45)
39Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, aand the people mourned greatly.
40And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, b“Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised, for we have sinned!”
41And Moses said, “Now why do you 13transgress the command of the LORD? For this will not succeed.
42c“Do not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.
43“For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; dbecause you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”
44eBut they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.
45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as fHormah.
Numbers 15
Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2a“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,
3‘and you bmake an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, cto fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or din your appointed feasts, to make a esweet1 aroma to the LORD, from the herd or the flock,
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