Numbers 11:1-10

1Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships, and the Lord heard it; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.

2So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire died out.

3He named that place Taberah (the place of burning), because the fire of the Lord burned among them.

4The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

5We remember the fish we ate freely and without cost in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

6But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.”

7The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.

8The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil.

9When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell with it.

10Now Moses heard the people weeping [in self-pity] throughout their families, every man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses regarded their behavior as evil.