1. The people started complaining about their troubles. The Lord heard their complaints. He heard these things and became angry. Fire from the Lord burned among the people. The fire burned some of the areas at the edge of the camp.
2. So the people cried to Moses for help. He prayed to the Lord and the fire stopped burning.
3. So that place was called Taberah. The people gave the place that name because the Lord caused a fire to burn in their camp.
4. The foreigners who had joined the Israelites began wanting other things to eat. Soon all the Israelites began complaining again. The people said, “We want to eat meat!
5. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. That fish cost us nothing. We also had good vegetables like cucumbers, melons, chives, onions, and garlic.
6. But now we have lost our strength. We never eat anything—only this manna!”
7. (The manna was like small coriander seeds, and it looked like sap from a tree.
8. The people gathered the manna. Then they used rocks to crush it and cooked it in a pot. Or they ground it into flour and made thin cakes with it. The cakes tasted like sweet cakes cooked with olive oil.
9. The manna fell on the ground each night when the ground became wet with dew.)
10. Moses heard the people complaining. People from every family were sitting by their tents and complaining. The Lord became very angry, and this made Moses very upset.