Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 140
The Five Books of Moses
them to sanctify themselves for to—morrow, and they shall eat flesh, for the Evmz-1.1vmo has heard their weeping, saying, 'Would that we could eat meat, such as we enjoyed among the Mitzeraim. Therefore the EvER·L1v1NG will give them iiesh, and they can eat it. They shall not eat it for one day only, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten clays, or fortwenty days; but for a month's time,··-until it is ejected from their mouth, and the greedy loathe it,—···because they have turned away from the EVER- LIVING, Who is in the midst of them, and wept before Me saying, ‘Why has He brought us from the There are
six hundred thousand of marching men in thenation I am surrounded by,···—aud you say supply them with flesh meat, and let them eat it for a month. If the sheep and cattle are slaughtered for them, ‘ could they obtain it? If all the fish in this sea were added to them,-—could they obtain it?’ The Evan-Lxvxne, however,
ls the hand of jnnovlm cut off? Now you shall see whether My Word is honoured Then Moses went out, and related
to the People all the words of the EVER-L1v1NG,and he selected seventy from the rulers of the People, and stationed them around the Hall, and the Evan-Lxvxuo descended in the cloud, and spoke with him and strengthened him with the spirit that was over him, and placed it upon each of the seventy rulers, and the spirit rested upon them and they addressed the audience, and did not fail. But two men separatedthem- selves in the camp ;—-the name of one was Aldad, and the name of the other was Midad ;-·-—but the spirit fell upon them, for they were enrolled, although they did not go to the Assembly, and they addressed the people in the camp. Therefore a youth ran and reported it to Moses Aldad and Midad are addressing a meeting in the Camp! ‘ So joshua the son of Nun, the lieu- tenant of Moses, went to enquire, My Lord Moses, restrain them Moses, however, replied to him,
‘You displease me! for I wish the Evan-mvmo would make all the People orators. I wish the EVER- Ltvmc would lay His spirit upon So Moses and the rulers of Israel
remained in camp, and a wind came from the Evmz—x.1vr:~:o and brought up quails from the sea, and they were scattered over the camp for a day’s journey on this side, as far as a day’s journey on the other side, all round the camp, and were heaped on the surface of the ground. Then the people arose all that day
and all that night, and all the next day to collect the quails, and the smallest collection was ten bags, and they spread them all about the camp. The flesh was still between their
teeth unconsumed when the anger of the LORD burnt against the People, and the Loan struck them with a very great stroke, -so they called the Graves of ! for they buried there the people who were greedy. Then the 28 33 34 35 people marched from the Graves of Greed to the Greeniields, and stayed at those fields. Miriam mth §srmt quarrel lvilly muses utter his £nrringi>. Then Miriam and Aaron quarrelled 12 with Moses about the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for Moses had married a Kushite, so they asked Has the EVER-LIVING spoken only
with Moses? Has He not also And the Evan- Ltvmc heard it. But the man Moses was very gentle, more so than any man on the face of the earth. Then the Ev1=:n·L1vmc; spoke sud-
denly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to G0 all three of you to the Hall of Assembly. So all three went, and ]EHOvAn
descended inthe form of the cloud and stood at the door of the Hall, and called Aaron and Miriam. Both of them accordingly went. When he I Kibroth Hathavah.—F. F. 9 Katzeroth, in I-Iebrew.—~F. F. I40
