1. The people were complaining in the ears of the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burnt; and the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
2. The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated.
3. The name of that place was called Taberah, because the Lord’s fire burnt amongst them.
4. The mixed multitude that was amongst them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
5. We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
6. but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
7. The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
8. The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
9. When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10. Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the Lord’s anger burnt greatly; and Moses was displeased.
11. Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
12. Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’
13. Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
14. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.