hath said: I will give it you: now therefore come with us, and we will do the best we can with you: for the LORD hath promised good things unto Israel.

And he answered: I will not go with you, but to my own land to my friendship.

And he said, Dearly beloved, forsake us not: for thou knowest where we shall pitch in the wilderness, and shalt be our eye.

And when thou shalt testify with us, what good thing the LORD doeth unto us, that will we do unto thee.

So they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them the three days’ journey, to shew them where they should rest.

And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

And when the ark was drawn, Moses said, Arise, O LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

And when she rested, he said, Come again, O LORD, unto the multitude of the thousands of Israel.
(Numbers)
Chapter 11
The lustful people are punished.

And when the people were impatient, they rebelled in the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD was kindled among them, and consumed the uttermost camps.

And the people cried unto Moses: and Moses besought the LORD, and the fire ceased.

And the name of the place was called Tabeera, because the fire of the LORD was kindled among them.

For the common people among them were lascivious, and sat and wept with the children of Israel, saying: Who will give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt for nought, and the gourds, and the arrows, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

But now our soul is dim; for our eyes see nothing but man.

But it was man as coriander seed, and to look upon as Bedellion.

And the people ran to and fro, and gathered it, and beat it with mills, and ground it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made it cakes of ashes: and it had a savour like the savour of oil.

And when the dew fell upon the camps by night, the man fell upon it.

And when Moses heard the people weeping among their families, every man in the door of his tent, the wrath of the LORD was kindled, and Moses was afraid.

And Moses said unto the LORD, Why grievest thou thy servant, and why findest not grace in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

Have I now conceived or born all the people, that thou mayest say unto me, Carry them in thine arms (as a nurse beareth a child) unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

Whence shall I take meat, that I may give unto all this people? They weep before me, and say: Give us flesh, that we may eat.

I am not able to bear the people all things by myself, for they are too heavy for me.

And if thou wilt do so unto me, slay me rather; if I have found other grace in thine eyes, that I see not my evil.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and the officers thereof, and take them before the tabernacle of the congregation, and set them there before thee,

Then will I come down, and speak with thee there, and take of thy spirit that is upon thee, and put it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not alone.

And thou shalt say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves to morrow, that ye eat flesh. For your weeping is come into the ears of the LORD, which say, Who shall give us flesh to eat, because it was well with us in Egypt? Therefore the LORD will give you flesh to eat, 19. Not one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, nor twenty days,

But for a month, until it go out at your nostrils, and be loathsome unto you, because ye rejected the LORD that is among you, and wept before him, saying, Why came we out of Egypt?

And Moses said, Six hundred thousand footmen are he among whom I am, and thou sayest, I will give you flesh, and ye shall eat for a month.

Shall sheep and oxen be slain, that there may be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together, that they may have enough?

And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the hand of the LORD shortened? But now shalt thou see whether my words be good unto thee, or not.

And Moses went out, and told the people the word of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

And the LORD came down in a cloud, and communed with him, and took the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy oldest men. And when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and ceased not.

And there were yet two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them: for they also were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle, and prophesied in the camp.

And a lad ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

And Joshua the son of Nun answered Moses’ servant, whom he had chosen, and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

But Moses said unto him, Art thou the zealot for me? Would to God that all the people of the LORD prophesied, and that the LORD would give his Spirit upon them!

So Moses gathered himself to the camp, and the elders of Israel.

And the wind went out from the LORD, and sent quails from the sea, and scattered them upon the camp, here for a day’s journey, and there for a day’s journey round about the camp, two cubits above the earth.

And the people arose all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and gathered quails: and he that gathered least gathered ten homers, and hanged them round about the camp.

And while the flesh was yet under their teeth, and before it was up, the wrath of the LORD
was kindled against the people, and smote them with a very great plague.

Wherefore the name of that place is called the grave of lust, because there they buried the lewd people.

And the people went out from the graves of pleasure unto Hazeroth, and dwelt in Hazeroth.
(Numbers)
Chapter 12
The grumbling Miriam becomes leprous.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of his wife, the Moor which he had taken, because he had taken a Moor to wife,

And said: Doth the LORD speak by Moses only? speaketh he not also through us? And the LORD heard it.

But Moses was a very afflicted man above all men upon the earth.

And suddenly the LORD said unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out, ye three, unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they went out, all three of them.

And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they went out.

And he said, Hear my words. If any of you be a prophet of the LORD, I will make myself known unto him in a vision, or speak unto him in a dream.

But not so my servant Moses, who is faithful in all mine house.

I speak unto him by word of mouth; and he beholdeth the LORD in his own likeness, and not by words of darkness, nor by parables. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and they turned away.

And the cloud departed from the tabernacle. And, behold, Miriam was leprous as the snow.
And Aaron turned unto Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous,

And said unto Moses, Ah, my lord, let not sin remain upon us, that we have done foolishly, and have sinned,

That this be not as a dead thing that cometh out of his mother’s womb; it hath already eaten up the half of her flesh.

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, O God, heal them.

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had spit in her face, should not she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up out of the camp seven days, and afterward let her be taken up again.

So Miriam was shut up out of the camp seven days. And the people departed not again, till Miriam were taken up.
Ch. 13. v. 1. Dananch the people departed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
(Numbers)
Chapter 13.
Of spies of the land of Canaan.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

Send out men to search the land of Canaan, which I will give unto the children of Israel, out of
every tribe of their fathers a choice man.

Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran, according to the word of the LORD, all of whom were chief men among the children of Israel.

And their names were Shammua the son of Zakur, of the tribe of Reuben; 6. Shaphat the son of Hori, of the tribe of Simeon.

Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of the tribe of Judah;

Igeal the son of Joseph, of