1. When the people complained intensely in the Lord’s hearing, the Lord heard and became angry. Then the Lord’s fire burned them and consumed the edges of the camp.
2. When the people cried out to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire subsided.
3. The name of that place was called Taberah, because the Lord’s fire burned against them.
4. The riffraff among them had a strong craving. Even the Israelites cried again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat?
5. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
6. Now our lives are wasting away. There is nothing but manna in front of us."
7. The manna was like coriander seed and its color was like resin.
8. The people would roam around and collect it and grind it with millstones or pound it in a mortar. Then they would boil it in pots and make it into cakes. It tasted like cakes baked in olive oil.
9. When the dew fell on the camp during the night, the manna would fall with it.
10. Moses heard the people crying throughout their clans, each at his tent’s entrance. The Lord was outraged, and Moses was upset.
11. Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? And why haven’t I found favor in your eyes, for you have placed the burden of all these people on me?
12. Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them, that you would say to me, ‘Carry them at the breast, as a nurse carries an unweaned child,’ to the fertile land that you promised their ancestors?