1. AND THE people grumbled and deplored their hardships, which was evil in the ears of the Lord, and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.
2. The people cried to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire subsided.
3. He called the name of the place Taberah [burning], because the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4. And the mixed multitude among them [the rabble who followed Israel from Egypt] began to lust greatly [for familiar and dainty food], and the Israelites wept again and said, Who will give us meat to eat?
5. We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt and without cost, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6. But now our soul (our strength) is dried up; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.
7. The manna was like coriander seed and its appearance was like that of bdellium [perhaps a precious stone].
8. The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh oil.