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And Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman. ² And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? has he not also spoken to us? and the Lord heard it. ³ And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth. ⁴ And the Lord said immediately to Moses and Aaron and Mariam, Come forth ¹all three of you to the tabernacle of witness. ⁵ And the three came forth to the tabernacle of witness; and the Lord descended in a pillar of a cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and Mariam were called; and both came forth. ⁶ And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him. ⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful

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was kindled among them from the Lord. ⁴ And the mixed multitude among them ²exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the melons, ³and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions. ⁶ But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna. ⁷ And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoarfrost. ⁸ And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil. ⁹ And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.

¹⁰ And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses. ¹¹ And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me? ¹² Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers? ¹³ Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. ¹⁴ I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom thou thyself knowest that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and thou shalt bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with thee. ¹⁷ And I will go down, and speak there with thee; and I will take of the spirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with thee the ⁴burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear them alone. ¹⁸ And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it ⁵was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰ ye shall eat for ⁶a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be ⁷nausea to you; because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt? ²¹ And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month. ²² Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them? ²³ And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of

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²² And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Aemath. ²³ And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there was Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt. ²⁴ And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs. ²⁵ And they called that place, The valley of the cluster because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. ²⁶ And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

²⁷ And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation and they shewed the fruit of the land: ²⁸ and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. ²⁹ Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach. ³⁰ And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan. ³¹ And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking ⁸before Moses, and said to him, Nay but we will go up by all means and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them. ³² But the men that went up together with him said, We ⁹will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we. ³³ And thy brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature. ³⁴ And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.