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So the people asked Moses to help them. And Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire stopped. So that place was called Taberah, because the Lord's fire burned among them there.

Some foreign people were travelling with the Israelites.[a] Those people wanted very much to eat better food. So the Israelites wept again. They said, ‘We want meat to eat!

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  1. 11:4 When the Israelites left Egypt, some foreign people came with them. We do not know why these foreign people came with them. Perhaps some of them were slaves.

Then the people (A)cried out to Moses, and when Moses (B)prayed to the Lord, the fire was [a]quenched. So he called the name of the place [b]Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.

Now the (C)mixed multitude who were among them [c]yielded to (D)intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: (E)“Who will give us meat to eat?

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  1. Numbers 11:2 extinguished
  2. Numbers 11:3 Lit. Burning
  3. Numbers 11:4 Lit. lusted intensely

When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed(A) to the Lord(B) and the fire died down. So that place was called Taberah,[a](C) because fire from the Lord had burned among them.(D)

Quail From the Lord

The rabble with them began to crave other food,(E) and again the Israelites started wailing(F) and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

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  1. Numbers 11:3 Taberah means burning.