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Text -- Numbers 11:1-9 (NET)
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The Israelites Complain
11:1 When the people complained , it displeased the Lord . When the Lord heard it, his anger burned , and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp .
11:2 When the people cried to Moses , he prayed to the Lord , and the fire died out .
11:3 So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
Complaints about Food
11:4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said , “If only we had meat to eat !
11:5 We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt , the cucumbers , the melons , the leeks , the onions , and the garlic .
11:6 But now we are dried up , and there is nothing at all before us except this manna !”
11:7 (Now the manna was like coriander seed , and its color like the color of bdellium .
11:8 And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars ; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil .
11:9 And when the dew came down on the camp in the night , the manna fell with it.)
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NET Notes: Num 11:1 The “fire of the Lord” is supernatural, for it is said to come from the Lord and not from a natural source. God gave them something to com...
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NET Notes: Num 11:2 Here is the pattern that will become in the wilderness experience so common – the complaining turns to a cry to Moses, which is then interpreted...
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NET Notes: Num 11:3 The name תַּבְעֵרָה (tav’erah) is given to the spot as a commemorative of the wilder...
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NET Notes: Num 11:4 The Hebrew expresses the strong wish or longing idiomatically: “Who will give us flesh to eat?” It is a rhetorical expression not intended...
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NET Notes: Num 11:5 The adverb “freely” is from the word חָנַן (khanan, “to be gracious”), from which is derived the...
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