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1 Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD ; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
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Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
2 The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.
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When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down.
3 So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
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So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.
4 The rabble who were among them had greedy desires ; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat?
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The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!
5 "We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
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We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
6 but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna."
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But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
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The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
8 The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
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The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
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When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
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