1. Now the people complained bitterly in the hearing of the Lord; and when he heard it his wrath flared up, so that the Lord’s fire burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
2. But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.
3. Hence that place was called Taberah, because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4. The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!
5. We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
6. But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but this manna.”