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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Numbers 11
⁶ but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna."
⁷ Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
⁸ The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.
⁹ When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
¹⁰ Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased.
¹¹ So Moses said to the Lord, "Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?
¹² Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ’Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
¹³ Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ’Give us meat that we may eat!’
¹⁴ I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.
¹⁵ So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness."
¹⁶ The Lord therefore said to Moses, "Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.