Numbers 11:4-15

4Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

5We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

7(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.

8And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

11And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

12Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

14I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

15But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”