Numbers 11:4-15

4Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat?

5We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

6but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”

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

8The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.

9And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

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

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

12Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

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

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

15If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”