18. To the people you will say, ‘Make yourselves holy for tomorrow; then you will eat meat, for you’ve cried in the Lord’s hearing, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was better for us in Egypt." The Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.
19. You won’t eat for just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
20. but for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils and nauseates you. You’ve rejected the Lord who’s been with you and you have cried before him, saying, "Why did we leave Egypt?" ’"
21. Moses said, "The people I’m with are six hundred thousand on foot and you’re saying, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
22. Can flocks and herds be found and slaughtered for them? Or can all the fish in the sea be found and caught for them?"
23. The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord’s power too weak? Now you will see whether my word will come true for you or not."
24. So Moses went out and told the people the Lord’s words. He assembled seventy men from the people’s elders and placed them around the tent.