Numbers 11:1-10

1Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

2Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.

3So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.

4The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?

5We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

6But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”

7The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.

8The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

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

10Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.