<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then all the community raised a loud cry,<n id="2" /> and the people wept<n id="3" /> that night.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the mixed multitude<n id="2" /> who were among them craved more desirable foods,<n id="3" /> and so the Israelites wept again<n id="4" /> and said, &#8220;If only we had meat to eat!<n id="5" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses heard the people weeping<n id="2" /> throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.<n id="3" />

From where shall I get<n id="1" /> meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, &#8216;Give us meat, that we may eat!&#8217;<n id="2" />

When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And say to the people, &#8216;Sanctify yourselves<n id="1" /> for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, saying, &#8220;Who will give us meat to eat,<n id="3" /> for life<n id="4" /> was good for us in Egypt?&#8221; Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> will give you meat, and you will eat.

but a whole month,<n id="1" /> until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick,<n id="2" /> because you have despised<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who is among you and have wept before him, saying, &#8220;Why<n id="4" /> did we ever come out of Egypt?&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Just then<n id="1" /> one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers<n id="2" /> a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of<n id="3" /> the whole community of the Israelites, while they<n id="4" /> were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.