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Book of Numbers, Chapter 11

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Numbers 11 NASB - New American Standard BibleNumbers 11 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 11 of Numbers—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now the people became like 1those who complain of adversity 2in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
  2. 3The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD and the fire [a]died out.
  3. So the name of that place was called [b]4Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
  4. ¶ The 5rabble who were among them [c]had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “6Who will give us [d]meat to eat?
  5. 7We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
  6. but now 8our [e]appetite is gone. There is nothing at all [f]to look at except this manna.”
  7. 9Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of 10bdellium.
  8. The people would go about and gather it and grind it [g]between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of [h]cakes baked with oil.
  9. 11When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall [i]with it.
  10. ¶ Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and [j]Moses was displeased.
  11. 12So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You [k]been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?
  12. Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a [l]13nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which 14You swore to their fathers’?
  13. Where am I to get meat to give to 15all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’
  14. 16I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too [m]burdensome for me.
  15. 17So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
  16. ¶ The LORD therefore said to Moses, “Gather for Me 18seventy men from the elders of Israel, 19whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
  17. 20Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of 21the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.
  18. Say to the people, ‘22Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept 23in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat and you shall eat.
  19. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
  20. [n]but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because 24you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
  21. But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’
  22. Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
  23. The LORD said to Moses, “Is 25the LORD’S [o]power limited? Now you shall see whether 26My word will [p]come true for you or not.”
  24. ¶ So Moses went out and 27told the people the words of the LORD. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.
  25. 28Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.
  26. ¶ But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the [q]other Medad. And 29the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.
  27. So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
  28. Then 30Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “31Moses, my lord, restrain them.”
  29. But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? 32Would that all the LORD’S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!”
  30. Then Moses [r]returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.
  31. 33Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp and [s]about two [t]cubits deep on the surface of the ground.
  32. The people [u]spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten [v]34homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
  33. 35While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.
  34. So the name of that place was called [w]36Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.
  35. From Kibroth-hattaavah 37the people set out for Hazeroth, and they [x]remained at Hazeroth.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit sank down
  2. ^ I.e. burning
  3. ^ Lit desired a desire
  4. ^ Lit flesh, and so throughout the ch
  5. ^ Lit soul is dried up
  6. ^ Lit for our eyes
  7. ^ Lit with
  8. ^ Lit juice of oil
  9. ^ Lit on
  10. ^ Lit it was evil in Moses’ sight
  11. ^ Lit dealt ill with
  12. ^ Or foster-father
  13. ^ Lit heavy
  14. ^ Lit until
  15. ^ Lit hand short
  16. ^ Lit befall you
  17. ^ Lit second
  18. ^ Lit removed himself
  19. ^ Or from about two cubits above
  20. ^ I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
  21. ^ Lit rose
  22. ^ I.e. One homer equals approx 11 bu
  23. ^ I.e. the graves of greediness
  24. ^ Lit were

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Nu 14:2; 16:11; 17:5
  2. ^ Nu 11:18; 14:28
  3. ^ Nu 12:11, 13; 21:7
  4. ^ De 9:22
  5. ^ Ex 12:38; 1Co 10:6
  6. ^ Ps 78:20
  7. ^ Ex 16:3
  8. ^ Nu 21:5
  9. ^ Ex 16:31
  10. ^ Ge 2:12
  11. ^ Ex 16:13, 14
  12. ^ Ex 5:22; De 1:12
  13. ^ 2Ki 10:1, 5; Is 49:23
  14. ^ Ge 24:7; Ex 13:5, 11; 33:1
  15. ^ Nu 11:21, 22; Jn 6:5-9
  16. ^ Ex 18:18; De 1:12
  17. ^ Ex 32:32
  18. ^ Ex 24:1, 9
  19. ^ Ex 18:25
  20. ^ Nu 11:25
  21. ^ 1Sa 10:6; Jl 2:28
  22. ^ Ex 19:10, 22
  23. ^ Nu 11:1
  24. ^ Jos 24:27; 1Sa 10:19
  25. ^ Is 50:2; 59:1
  26. ^ Eze 12:25; 24:14
  27. ^ Nu 11:16
  28. ^ Nu 11:17; 12:5
  29. ^ Nu 24:2; 1Sa 10:6; 2Ch 15:1; Ne 9:30
  30. ^ Ex 33:11; Jos 1:1
  31. ^ Mr 9:38-40
  32. ^ 1Co 14:5
  33. ^ Ex 16:13; Ps 78:26-28; 105:40
  34. ^ Eze 45:11
  35. ^ Ps 78:29-31; 106:15
  36. ^ De 9:22
  37. ^ Nu 33:17

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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