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He then named that place Taberah,[a] because the Lord’s fire had incinerated some of them.

Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people[b] had an insatiable appetite[c] for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, “If only somebody would feed us some meat! How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:3 The Heb. name Taberah means “burning”
  2. Numbers 11:4 Lit. among them
  3. Numbers 11:4 Lit. craved for a craving