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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Discontent of the People. 1Now
the people complained bitterly in the hearing of the LORD;a and
when he heard it his wrath flared up, so that the LORD’s fire
burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. 2But
when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and
the fire died out. 3Hence that place was called Taberah,*
because there the fire of the LORD burned among them. 4The
riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the
Israelites lamented again,b “If only we had meat for food! 5We
remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the
cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
6But now we are famished; we have nothing to look forward to but
this manna.”c 7d Manna was like coriander seed* and had the
appearance of bdellium. 8When they had gone about and gathered
it up, the people would grind it between millstones or pound it
in a mortar, then cook it in