18. To the people, however, you shall say: “Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, when you shall have meat to eat. For in the hearing of the Lord you have cried, ‘If only we had meat for food! Oh, how well off we were in Egypt!’ Therefore the Lord will give you meat to eat,
19. and you will eat it, not for one day, or two days, or five, or ten, or twenty days,
20. but for a whole month—until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected the Lord who is in your midst, and in his presence you have cried, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
21. But Moses said, “The people around me include six hundred thousand soldiers; yet you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.’
22. Can enough sheep and cattle be slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
23. The Lord answered Moses: Is this beyond the Lord’s reach? You shall see now whether or not what I have said to you takes place.