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Numbers 11:1-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

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.

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