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chapter 11
1
In the
mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were
repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the
fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the
uttermost part of the camp.
2 And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to
the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.
3 And he called the name of that place, The burning:
for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.
4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with
them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also
being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the Ash that we ate in Egypt free cost:
the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlic.
6 Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but
manna.
7 A Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the
colour of bdellium.
8 And the people went about, and gathering it, ground
it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes
thereof of the taste of bread tempered with oil.
9 and when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the
manna also fell with it.
10 Now Moses heard the people weeping by their
families, every one at the door of his tent. And the wrath of the Lord was
exceedingly enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable.
11 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy
servant? wherefore do I not find favour before thee? and why hast thou laid the
weight of all this people upon me ?
12 Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten
them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is
wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou
hast sworn to their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a
multitude? they weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
14 I am not able alone to bear all this people, because
it is too heavy for me.
15 But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee
to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so
great evils.
16 And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy
men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of
the people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,
17 That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will
take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the
burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
18 And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified :
to morrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh
to eat? it was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you
may eat:
19 Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor
for twenty.
20 But even for a month of days, till it come out at
your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord,
who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out
of Egypt?
21 And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen
of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?
22 Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed,
that it may suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered
together to fill them?
23 And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord
unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.
24 Moses therefore came, and told the people the words
of the Lord, and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them
to stand about the tabernacle.
25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him,
taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And
when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease
afterwards.
26 Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of
whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested;
for they also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.
27 And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a
young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.
28 Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of
Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.
29 But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that
all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!
30 And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel,
into the camp.
31 And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up
beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one
day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air
two cubits high above the ground.
32 The people therefore rising up all that day, and
night, and the next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten
cores: and they dried them round about the camp.
33 As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither
had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked
against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.
34 And that place was called, The graves of lust: for
there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of
lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.
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