A   And it fortuned, þt; whan ^note &club; the people dyd wykedlye, it was a dyspleasure in the eares of the Lord. And wh&ebar; the Lord heard it, &rhand; his co&ubar;tena&ubar;ce was prouoked to wrath, ∧ the fier of the Lord burnt among th&ebar;, ∧ c&obar;sumed th&ebar; þt; were the vttemost of þe; hoste. And þe; people cried vnto Moses. And wh&abar; Moses made intercessi&obar; vnto þe; Lord, þe; fier qu&ebar;ched. And þe; name of þe; place was called &rhand; Thaberah, because þe; fier of the Lord burnt among them.

B   And the rascall people that was amonge them, fell a lustyng, and turned them selues and wepte (euen as dyd also the chyldren of Israel) and sayde: who shall geue vs flesh to eate? we remembre the fyshe which we dyd eate in Egipt for naught, ∧ the Cucumbers, and melons, lekes, onyons ∧ garleke. But nowe oure soule is dryed awaye, for we can se nothyng els, saue Manna.

The manna was as ^note coriander seed, and (to se to) lyke Bedelli&obar;. And the people w&ebar;t about and gathered it, and gro&ubar;de it in milles, or bet it in morters, and baked it in pannes, and made kakes of it. And the taist of it was like vnto the taist of an oyle kake. And whan the dewe fell downe vpon the hooste in the nyght, the Manna fell vpon it.

C   And whan Moses herde the people wepe thorowout theyr housholdes, euery m&abar; in þe; dore of his tent, &rhand; þe; face of the Lord was prouoked vnto wrath exceadingly: ∧ it greued Moses also. And Moses sayde vnto the Lord: wherfore hast thou dealt cruelly with thy serua&ubar;t? And wherfore haue I not fo&ubar;d fauour in thy syght, seyng that thou puttest the weyght of all this people vpon me? haue I conceaued all thys people? Or haue I begott&ebar; th&ebar;: ? hat þu; shuldest saye vnto me? carie them in they bosome (as a nurse beareth the suckynge chylde) vnto the lande, which thou swarest vnto their fathers? where shulde I haue fleshe, to geue vnto all thys people, which wepe before me, saying: geue vs flesh that we maye eate? I am not able to beare all thys people alone, seying it is to heuy for me. If thou deale thus with me, kyll me, I praye the, yf I haue founde fauour in thy syght, that I se not my wrechednes.

D   And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses, ^note gather The people murmur. vnto me .lxx. m&ebar; of the elders of Israel, which thou knowest, that they are þe; elders of the people and officers ouer th&ebar;: and thou shalt bryng th&ebar; vnto the tabernacle of witnesse, that they maye stande there with the: And &rhand; I will come downe, and talke with the there, and &rhand; take of the sprete which is vpon the, and put vp&obar; them, and they shall beare the burthen of the people with the, lest thou be constrayned to beare it alone.

And saye thou vnto the ^note people: be halowed agaynst tomorowe, and ye shall eate flesh: for your whyning is in the eares of the Lorde, seing ye sayd: who shall geue vs flesh to eate? we were happye in Egipt: therfore the Lorde wyll geue you flesh, and ye shall eate. Ye shall not eate one daye nor two, nor fyue dayes, neyther ten, nor twentye dayes: but euen a moneth longe, vntyll it come out at the nastrels of you: and make you to parbrake, because that ye haue cast the Lorde asyde which is amonge you: and haue wepte before hym, saying: why came we thus oute of Egipte?

E   And Moses sayde: ^note syxe hundred thousande fotmen are there of the people, among which I am. And thou hast sayd: I wyll geue them flesh, that they maye eate a moneth l&obar;ge. Shall the shepe ∧ the ox&ebar; be slayne for them, to fynde them? ether, shall all the fysh of the see be gathered together for th&ebar; to serue them? And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Shall ^note the Lordes hande be waxed shorte? Thou shalt se nowe whither my word shall come to passe vnto the, or not.

And Moses went out, and tolde the people the saying of the Lorde, and gathred the lxx. elders of the people, and set them rounde aboute the tabernacle. And the Lorde came downe in a cloud, and spake vnto hym, and toke of the sprete that was vpon hym, and gaue it vnto the .lxx. elders. F   And it fortuned that when the sprete rested vpon them, they &pro;phecied, ∧ did not ceasse. But there remayned two of the men in the hoost: the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of þe; other Medad. And the sprete rested vpon them, and they were of them that were wrytten, and went not out vnto the tabernacle, but prophecied in the hoost. And there ran a y&obar;g man, and tolde Moses and sayd: Eldad and Medad do prophecye in the hooste. And Iosua the sonne of Nun the seruaunt of Moses &club; one of hys yonge men, answered ∧ sayde: master Moses, ^note forbyd them. And Moses sayde vnto hym: enuyest thou for my sake? ^note wolde God þt; all the Lordes people coulde prophecye, and that the Lorde wold put hys sprete vpon them. And Moses gat him into the hoost, he and the elders of Israel.

And there went forth a wynde from the Lorde: and ^note brought quayles from the see:

Mir Iam is leprous. and let th&ebar; fall about the hoost, euen a daies iorney ro&ubar;de about on euery syde of þe; hoost, and (they dyd flye in the ayre) as it were two cubites hye ouer the erth. And the people stode vp, and all that day and all þe; nyght, and on the morowe they gathered quayles. And he that gathred a lytle, gathred ten homers ful. And they spred them abrode rounde aboute the hoost. ^noteAnd whyle the flesh was yet betwene their teth, and yer it was chewed vp: beholde, the countenaunce of the Lorde was moued agaynst þe; people, ∧ the Lord ^note slewe the people with an exceadynge great plage. And the name of the place was called, the graues of lust, because they buryed the people that lusted, there. And the people toke their ^note iorneye from the graues of lust vnto Hazeroth, and bode at Hazeroth.

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