The Demand for Meat and Moses’ Despair

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And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

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We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick;

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and now our soul is dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.'

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And the manna is as coriander seed, and its aspect as the aspect of bdolach;

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the people have turned aside and gathered it , and ground it with millstones, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pan, and made it cakes, and its taste hath been as the taste of the moisture of oil.

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And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna descendeth upon it.

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And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it is evil.

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And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes--to put the burden of all this people upon me?

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I--have I conceived all this people? I--have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers?

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

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I am not able--I alone--to bear all this people, for it is too heavy for me;

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and if thus Thou art doing to me--slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

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