The people lust for flesh. 6 NUMBERS, XI. Moses' complaint to God. dren of Israel also wept again, and said, | Gather unto me seventy men of the elders Who shall give us flesh to eat? of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: i 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of *bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and 'the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. n il And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a 'nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?. 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.... 15 And if thou deal thus with me, "kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not *see my wretchedness. 16 יני And the LORD said unto Moses, k Gen. 2. 12. 1 Ex. 16. 31. m Ex. 16, 13, 14. n Ps. 78. 21. Ex. 13. 5. 19. 4. r Gen. 26, 3, & 50, 24. t Ex. 18. 18. u See 1 Kings y See Ex. 24. 1, 9. z Deut. 16. 18. a 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them: and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. C 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 8 20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? g 21 And Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, * Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether 'my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. a ver. 25. Gen. 11. 5. & 18. 21. Ex 19. 20. b 1 Sam. 10. 6. 2 Kings 2. 15. d Ex. 16. 7. e ver. 5. Heb. month of days. g ch. 21. 5. ch. 1. 46. i See 2 Kings 7. 2. Matt. k Is. 50. 2. & 59. 1. n ver. 17. ch. 12. 5. 1 ch. 23, 19. Ez. Seventy elders appointed. NUMBERS, XII. God rebuketh Miriam and and spake unto him, and took of the spirit | 10 Kibroth-hattaavah: because there that was upon him, and gave it unto the buried the people that lusted. seventy elders and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 35 And the people journeyed fro broth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and 11 at Hazeroth. Moses because of the Ethiopian v whom he had married: for he had ried an Ethiopian woman. pro 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do phesy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 8 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! 30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 9 31 ¶ And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten "homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place o See 2 Kings 2. 15. p See 1 Sam. 10. 5, 6, 10. & 19. 20, 21, 23. Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17, 18. 1 Cor. 14. 1, &c. q See 1 Sam. 20. 26. Jer. 36. 5. r See Mark 9. 38. Luke 9. 49. John 3. 26. s1 Cor. 14. 5. t Ex. 16. 13. Ps. 78. 26, 27, 28. & 105. 40. Heb. as it were the way of a day. u Ex. 16. 36. Ez. 45. 11. x Ps. 78. 30, 31. 10 That is, The graves of lust. Deut. 9. 22. 11 Heb. they were in, dc. y ch. 33. 17. C 2 And they said, Hath the LORD spoken only by Moses? hath he not s also by us? And the LORD heard it 3 (Now the man Moses was very above all the men which were upon t] of the earth.) d 4 And the LORD spake suddenly Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Come out ye three unto the taberna the congregation. And they three out. e 5 And the LORD came down in the of the cloud, and stood in the door tabernacle, and called Aaron and M and they both came forth. 6 And he said, Hear now my wor there be a prophet among you, I the will make myself known unto him vision, and will speak unto him dream. 7 h My servant Moses is not so, faithful in all *mine house. n i mo 8 With him will I speak 1 mouth, even "apparently, and not in speeches; and the similitude of the shall he behold: wherefore then w not afraid to speak against my Moses? 9 And the anger of the LORD was against them; and he departed. 10 And the cloud departed from CHAP. XII. Or, Cushite. a Ex. 2. 21. 2 Heb. taken. Mic. 6. 4. c Gen. 29. 33. ch. 11. 1. 2 Kings 19. 4. Is. 37. 4. 1 d Ps. 76. 9. e ch. 11. 25. & 16. 19. f Gen. 15. 1. & 46. 2. Jol 1. 1. Dan. 8. 2. & 10. 8, 16, 17. Luke 1. 11. 22. Acts 10. 11, 17. Matt. 1. 20. h Ps. 105, 26, Deut. 34. 10. m 1 Cor. 13. o 2 Pet. 2. 10. Jude 8. tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was léprous. 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. · 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be "shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. Their instructions. 9 of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. ་། 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you h up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds ; 20 And what the land is, whether it be 'fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes. 21 ¶ So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. m The evil report of the spies. NUMBERS, XIV. The murmuring of the people. Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch | we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it and so we were in their sight. between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the 2 brook 3 Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. 8 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with "milk and honey; * and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 2 Or, valley. That is. A cluster of grapes. & ver. 3. t ch. 20. 1, 16. & 32. 8. & 33. 36. Deut. 1. 19. Josh. 14. 6. u Ex. 3. 8. & 33. 3. x Deut. 1.25. y Deut. 1. 28. & 9. 1, 2. z ver. 33. a Ex. 17. 8. ch. 14. 43. Judg. 6. 3. 1 Sam. 14, 48. & 15. 3. &c. b See ch. 14. 6, 24. Josh. 14. 7. d ch. 14. 36, 37. e Am. 2. 9. 4 Heb. c ch. 32. 9. Deut. 1. 28. Josh. 14. 8. men of statures. f Deut 1. 28. & 2. 10. & 9. 2, g Is. 40. 22. h1 Sam. 17.42. CHAP. XIV.-a ch. 11. 4. CHAPTER XIV. The people murmur. 6 Joshua and Caleb labour to still them. 11 God threateneth them. 13 Moses intercedeth with God for them, and obtaineth pardon. 26 The murmurers are not to enter the promised land. 36 The men who brought up the eni report die by a plague. 40 The people attempting to go up against the will of God are smitten. [B. c. 1490.] AND ND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 b And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? d 4 And they said one to another, a Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. k 8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; land which floweth with milk and honey. m 1 a 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for "they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. fch. i Deut. c See ver. 28, 29. d Neh. 9. 17. e See Deut. 17. 16. Acts 7. 39. 16, 4, 22. g ver. 24, 30. ch. 13. 6, 8. h ch. 13. 27. Deut. 1. 25. 10. 15. 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26, & 22. 20. 1 Kings 10. 9. Ps. 22. 8. & 147. 10, 11. Is. 62. 4. k ch. 13. 27. 1 Deut. 9, 7, 23, 24. m Deut. 7. 18. & 20. 3, n ch. 24. 8. Heb. shadow, Ps. 121. 5. Is. 30. 2. 3. Jer. 48. 45. o Deut. Judg. 1. 22. 2 Chr. 13. 12. & 15. 2. Ps. 16. 7, 11. Is. 41. 10. Am. Zech. 8. 23. b Ex. 16. 2. & 17. 3. ch. 16. 41. Ps. 106, 25. 20. 1, 3. 5. 14. |