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Numbers 11:4

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A group of troublemakers among them had such intense food cravings they affected the Israelites who started crying again, asking “Who's going to get us some meat to eat?

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When the people heard about this law, they separated out from Israel everyone who had foreign ancestry.

They were filled with desperate cravings in the wilderness; they provoked God in the desert.

In addition many foreigners joined them. They also took with them large herds and flocks of livestock.

“I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have as much bread as you want. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

“The Lord should've killed us back in Egypt!” the Israelites told them. “At least there we could sit down beside stewpots of meat and eat bread until we were full. But you had to bring all of us out here in the desert to starve us all to death!”

or if you say instead, “No, we're going to Egypt to live there, where we won't experience war or hear trumpets sounding or go hungry;”

Tell the people: Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you'll have meat to eat, because you were complaining and the Lord heard you saying, ‘Who's going to get us some meat to eat? We were better off in Egypt!’ So the Lord is going to provide you with meat to eat.

Then everybody there cried out loud all night.

not a single one of the those who saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert—but provoked me and refused to obey me time and time again—

Haven't you done enough by taking us away from a land flowing with milk and honey in order to kill us out here in the desert? Do you have to make yourself a dictator as well, someone to rule us?

Instead put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and forget about following your sinful desires.

Now these experiences are examples to us to show us we should not desire what is evil, as they did.

Don't be fooled: “Bad company ruins good character.”

But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.




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