And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,

all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.

And the children of Israel said to them, Would we had died smitten by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to slay all this congregation with hunger.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do you revile me, and why do you tempt the Lord?

because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

For why did I not die in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard [them] and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.

The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was angry with the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,

the men that spoke evil reports against the land, died of the plague before the Lord.

And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground split apart beneath them.

And they went down, [they] and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger; they have departed, pierced through from lack of the fruits of the field.