And all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that only we had died in this wilderness!

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

And the children of Israel said to them, Oh, that we had died at the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt Jehovah?

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the belly?

Now the people murmured, and it was evil in the ears of Jehovah; for Jehovah heard it, and His anger burned. And the fire of Jehovah burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the camp.

And while the flesh was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Jehovah burned against the people, and Jehovah struck the people with a very great plague.

And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,

those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

And it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them,

So they and all those with them went down alive into Sheol; the earth covered over them, and they perished from among the assembly.

And a fire came forth from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

Better off are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; for they pine away, pierced through for lack of the fruits of the fields.