Numbers 11:4-15

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.

11So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have placed the burden of all these people on me?

12Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?

13Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, so that we may eat.’

14I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

15So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”