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Numbers 11:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. "
Numbers 11:9
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7 The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
8 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.
11 Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
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Numbers 11:1
"The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp."
Numbers 11:2
"The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated."
Numbers 11:3
"The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burned among them."
Numbers 11:4
"The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?"
Numbers 11:5
"We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;"
Numbers 11:6
"but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”"
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