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Numbers 11
Numbers 11:1 And when
the people complained, it displeased the
LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the
fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the
uttermost parts of the camp.
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Complained = Hebrew were as complainers. In this word another
inverted, to mark the fact of the People's turning back in
their hearts.
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It displeased the LORD = Hebrew "was evil in the ears of
God". Some codices read "eyes" instead of "ears".
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The fire = Those before the Law not punished. Punished after
Law given.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto
the LORD, the fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the
fire of the LORD burnt among them.
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us
flesh to eat?
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
garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all,
beside this manna, before our eyes.
7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof
as the colour of bdellium.
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John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written,
He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Then Jesus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread
from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from
heaven, and giveth life unto the world
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.
11 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 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men
of the elders 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.
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.
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;
20 But 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?
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.
24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the
LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the tabernacle.
25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy
elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them,
they prophesied, and did not cease.
26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the
one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested
upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out
unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad
and Medad do prophesy 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.
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.
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 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 Kibroth-hattaavah:
because there they buried the people that lusted.
35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto
Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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