15. If this is the way you're going to treat me, just kill me now and end my miserable life!
16. The Lord said to Moses:Choose seventy of Israel's respected leaders and go with them to the sacred tent.
17. While I am talking with you there, I will give them some of your authority, so they can share responsibility for my people. You will no longer have to care for them by yourself.
18. As for the Israelites, I have heard them complaining about not having meat and about being better off in Egypt. So tell them to make themselves acceptable to me, because tomorrow they will have meat.
19-20. In fact, they will have meat day after day for a whole month—not just a few days, or even ten or twenty. They turned against me and wanted to return to Egypt. Now they will eat meat until they get sick of it.
21. Moses replied, “At least six hundred thousand grown men are here with me. How can you say there will be enough meat to feed them and their families for a whole month?
22. Even if we butchered all our sheep and cattle, or caught every fish in the sea, we wouldn't have enough to feed them.”