Numbers 11:11-12
11:11 And Moses said to the
Lord, “Why have you afflicted
your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that
you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
11:12 Did I conceive this entire people?
Did I give birth to
them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father
bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?
Numbers 11:16-18
The Response of God
11:16 The Lord said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.
11:17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.
11:18 “And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.
Numbers 11:32
11:32 And the people stayed up
all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers,
and they spread them out
for themselves all around the camp.
Numbers 13:32
13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging
report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through
to investigate is a land that devours
its inhabitants.
All the people we saw there
are of great stature.
Numbers 14:11
The Punishment from God
14:11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
Numbers 14:14
14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants
of this land. They have heard that you,
Lord, are among this people, that you,
Lord, are seen face to face,
that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers 16:47
16:47 So Aaron did
as Moses commanded
and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.
Numbers 22:6
22:6 So
now, please come and curse this nation
for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them
and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed,
and whoever you curse is cursed.”
Numbers 25:4
God’s Punishment
25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.”