1. Now when the people complained openly before the Lord, the Lord heard, and His anger burned. Then the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
2. And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was quenched.
3. He called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4. The mixed multitude that was among them lusted, and the children of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
5. We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6. But now our life is dried up. There is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes.”
7. The manna was as coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
8. The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked in oil.
9. When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it.
10. Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the opening of his tent, and the anger of the Lord burned greatly. Moses was also displeased.
11. Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You hurt Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your eyes, that You lay the burden of all this people on me?