Numbers 11:13-22

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 thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with thee, that I may not see my affliction.

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

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

¹⁸And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye 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 ye shall eat flesh.

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

²⁰ye shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?

²¹And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.

²²Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?