Numbers 11:10-19

¹⁰And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.

¹¹And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you afflicted your servant, and why have I not found grace in your sight, that you should lay the weight of this people upon me?

¹²Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that you say to me, Take them into your bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which you sware to their fathers?

¹³Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

¹⁴I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.

¹⁵And if you do thus to me, kill me utterly, if I have found favor with you, that I may not see my affliction.

¹⁶And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.

¹⁷And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.

¹⁸And to the people you shall say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and you° shall eat flesh; for you° wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and you° shall eat flesh.

¹⁹You° shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;