Bible Verses

The Lord asked Moses: “Is the Lord’s arm shortened? Now, you shall see whether or not my word is true.”

Will sheep and cattle be slaughtered in sufficient numbers for them? All the fish of the sea would not be enough for them.”

And Moses said: “The people I am with are six hundred thousand on foot, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they shall eat it for a whole month!’

 but a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome. For you have rejected the Lord who is in your midst and have wept before him, saying: Why did we ever leave Egypt?”

you shall eat, not only one day, or two, or five, or ten, or twenty days

You shall say to the people of Israel: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying: Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt! The Lord will provide you with meat, and

I shall come down to speak with you and take some of the spirit in you and put it in them. From now on, they will share the burden of the people with you so that you will no longer bear it alone.

Announcement and Fulfillment The Lord said to Moses: “Assemble seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you recognize as elders and men of authority over them and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them take their stand there with you.

Kill me rather than treat me like this; I beg of you if you look kindly on me and let me not see your anger.”

I cannot, by myself alone, carry all these people; the burden is too heavy for me.