Numbers 11

vayehi ha'am kemitonenim ra be'ozne Adonai vayyishma Adonai vayyikhar appo vattivar-bam esh Adonai vattokhal biqtseh hammakhaneh

The people took to complaining bitterly before GOD. GOD heard and was incensed: a fire of GOD broke out against them, ravaging the outskirts of the camp.

vayyitsaq ha'am el-mosheh vayyitpallel mosheh el-Adonai vattishqa ha'esh

The people cried out to Moses. Moses prayed to GOD, and the fire died down.

vayyiqra shem-hammaqom hahu taverah ki-va'arah vam esh Adonai

That place was named Taberah, because a fire of GOD had broken out against them.

vehasafsuf asher beqirbo hitavvu ta'avah vayyashuvu vayyivku gam bene yisra'el vayyomeru mi ya'akhilenu basar

The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

zakharnu et-haddagah asher-nokhal bemitsrayim khinnam et haqqishu'im ve'et ha'avattikhim ve'et-hekhatsir ve'et-habbetsalim ve'et-hashumim

We remember the fish that we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

ve'attah nafshenu yeveshah en kol bilti el-hamman enenu

Now our gullets are shriveled. There is nothing at all! Nothing but this manna to look to!”

vehamman kizra-gad hu ve'eno ke'en habbedolakh

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and in color it was like bdellium.

shatu ha'am velaqetu vetakhanu varekhayim o dakhu bammedokhah uvishelu bapparur ve'asu oto ugot vehayah tamo keta'am leshad hashamen

The people would go about and gather it, grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar, boil it in a pot, and make it into cakes. It tasted like rich cream.

uveredet hattal al-hammakhaneh layelah yered hamman alayw

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall upon it.

vayyishma mosheh et-ha'am bokheh lemishpekhotayw ish lefetakh oholo vayyikhar-af Adonai me'od uve'ene mosheh ra

Moses heard the people weeping, every clan apart, at the entrance of each tent. GOD was very angry, and Moses was distressed.

vayyomer mosheh el-Adonai lamah hare'ota le'avdekha velammah lo-matsati khen be'enekha lasum et-massa kol-ha'am hazzeh alay

And Moses said to GOD, “Why have You dealt ill with Your servant, and why have I not enjoyed Your favor, that You have laid the burden of all this people upon me?

he'anokhi hariti et kol-ha'am hazzeh im-anokhi yelidtihu ki-tomar elay sa'ehu vekheqekha ka'asher yissa ha'omen et-hayyoneq al ha'adamah asher nishbata la'avotayw

Did I produce all this people, did I engender them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a caregiver carries an infant,’ to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers?

me'ayin li basar latet lekhol-ha'am hazzeh ki-yivku alay lemor tenah-llanu vasar venokhelah

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

lo-ukhal anokhi levaddi laset et-kol-ha'am hazzeh ki khaved mimmenni

I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me.

ve'im-kakhah at-oseh li horgeni na harog im-matsati khen be'enekha ve'al-ereh bera'ati

If You would deal thus with me, kill me rather, I beg You, and let me see no more of my wretchedness!”

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh esfah-lli shivim ish mizziqne yisra'el asher yadata ki-hem ziqne ha'am veshoterayw velaqakhta otam el-ohel mo'ed vehityatsevu sham immakh

Then GOD said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy of Israel’s elders of whom you have experience as elders and officers of the people, and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them take their place there with you.

veyaradti vedibbarti immekha sham ve'atsalti min-haruakh asher alekha vesamti alehem venase'u ittekha bemassa ha'am velo-tissa attah levaddekha

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will draw upon the spirit that is on you and put it upon them; they shall share the burden of the people with you, and you shall not bear it alone.

ve'el-ha'am tomar hitqaddeshu lemakhar va'akhaltem basar ki bekhitem be'ozne Adonai lemor mi ya'akhilenu basar ki-tov lanu bemitsrayim venatan Adonai lakhem basar va'akhaltem

And say to the people: Purify yourselves for tomorrow and you shall eat meat, for you have kept whining before GOD and saying, ‘If only we had meat to eat! Indeed, we were better off in Egypt!’ GOD will give you meat and you shall eat.

lo yom ekhad tokhelun velo yomayim velo khamisha yamim velo asarah yamim velo esrim yom

You shall eat not one day, not two, not even five days or ten or twenty,

ad khodesh yamim ad asher-yetse me'appekhem vehayah lakhem lezara ya'an ki-me'astem et-Adonai asher beqirbekhem vattivku lefanayw lemor lammah zeh yatsanu mimmitsrayim

but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected GOD who is among you, by whining before [God] and saying, ‘Oh, why did we ever leave Egypt!’”

vayyomer mosheh shesh-me'ot elef ragli ha'am asher anokhi beqirbo ve'attah amarta basar etten lahem ve'okhlu khodesh yamim

But Moses said, “The people who are with me number six hundred thousand foot soldiers [alone]; yet You say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month.’

hatson uvaqar yishakhet lahem umatsa lahem im et-kol-dege hayyam ye'asef lahem umatsa lahem

Could enough flocks and herds be slaughtered to suffice them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered for them to suffice them?”

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh hayad Adonai tiqtsar attah tireh hayiqrekha devari im-lo

And GOD answered Moses, “Is there a limit to GOD’s power? You shall soon see whether what I have said happens to you or not!”

vayyetse mosheh vayedabber el-ha'am et divre Adonai vayye'esof shivim ish mizziqne ha'am vayya'amed otam sevivot ha'ohel

Moses went out and reported GOD’s words to the people. He gathered seventy of the people’s elders and stationed them around the Tent.

vayyered Adonai be'anan vayedabber elayw vayyatsel min-haruakh asher alayw vayyitten al-shivim ish hazzeqenim vayehi kenoakh alehem haruakh vayyitnabbe'u velo yasafu

Then, after coming down in a cloud and speaking to him, GOD drew upon the spirit that was on him and put it upon the seventy elders. And when the spirit rested upon them, they spoke in ecstasy, but did not continue.

vayyisha'aru shene-anashim bammakhaneh shem ha'ekhad eldad veshem hasheni medad vattanakh alehem haruakh vehemmah bakketuvim velo yatse'u ha'ohelah vayyitnabbe'u bammakhaneh

Two of the men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, had remained in camp; yet the spirit rested upon them—they were among those recorded, but they had not gone out to the Tent—and they spoke in ecstasy in the camp.

vayyarots hanna'ar vayyagged lemosheh vayyomar eldad umedad mitnabbe'im bammakhaneh

An assistant ran out and told Moses, saying, “Eldad and Medad are acting the prophet in the camp!”

vayya'an yehoshua bin-nun mesharet mosheh mibbekhurayw vayyomar adoni mosheh kela'em

And Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant from his youth, spoke up and said, “My lord Moses, restrain them!”

vayyomer lo mosheh hameqanne attah li umi yitten kol-am Adonai nevi'im ki-yitten Adonai et-rukho alehem

But Moses said to him, “Are you wrought up on my account? Would that all GOD’s people were prophets, that GOD inspired them!”

vayye'asef mosheh el-hammakhaneh hu veziqne yisra'el

Moses then reentered the camp together with the elders of Israel.

veruakh nasa me'et Adonai vayyagoz salvim min-hayyam vayyittosh al-hammakhaneh kederekh yom koh ukhederekh yom koh sevivot hammakhaneh ukhe'ammatayim al-pene ha'arets

A wind from GOD started up, swept quail from the sea and strewed them over the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on that side, all around the camp, and some two cubits deep on the ground.

vayyaqom ha'am kol-hayyom hahu vekhol-hallaylah vekhol yom hammokhorat vayya'asfu et-hasselav hammamit asaf asarah khomarim vayyishtekhu lahem shatoakh sevivot hammakhaneh

The people set to gathering quail all that day and night and all the next day—even the one who gathered least had ten ḥomer s—and they spread them out all around the camp.

habbasar odennu ben shinnehem terem yikkaret ve'af Adonai kharah va'am vayyakh Adonai ba'am makkah rabbah me'od

The meat was still between their teeth, not yet chewed, when GOD’s anger blazed forth against the people and GOD struck the people with a very severe plague.

vayyiqra et-shem-hammaqom hahu qivrot hatta'avah ki-sham qaveru et-ha'am hammitavvim

That place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because the people who had the craving were buried there.

miqqivrot hatta'avah nase'u ha'am khatserot vayyihyu bakhatserot

Then the people set out from Kibroth-hattaavah for Hazeroth. When they were in Hazeroth,