NKJV Bible in 365 Days
Quail, Leprosy, and Spies — February 9
Numbers 11-13
Numbers 11
1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord ; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. 365N 40.1
2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord , the fire was [a] quenched. 365N 40.2
3 So he called the name of the place [b] Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them. 365N 40.3
4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them [c] yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? 365N 40.4
5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 365N 40.5
6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” 365N 40.6
7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 365N 40.7
8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil. 365N 40.8
9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it. 365N 40.9
10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased. 365N 40.10
11 So Moses said to the Lord , “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the [d] burden of all these people on me? 365N 40.11
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore [e] to their fathers? 365N 40.12
13 Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 365N 40.13
14 I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 365N 40.14
15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!” 365N 40.15
16 So the Lord said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 365N 40.16
17 Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. 365N 40.17
18 Then you shall say to the people, [f] ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord , saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. 365N 40.18
19 You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 365N 40.19
20 but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ” 365N 40.20
21 And Moses said, “The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’ 365N 40.21
22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?” 365N 40.22
23 And the Lord said to Moses, “Has [g] the Lord ’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not.” 365N 40.23
24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord , and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. 365N 40.24
25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, [h] although they never did so again. 365N 40.25
26 But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. 365N 40.26
27 And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 365N 40.27
28 So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!” 365N 40.28
29 Then Moses said to him, “Are you [i] zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord ’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!” 365N 40.29
30 And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 365N 40.30
31 Now a wind went out from the Lord , and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. 365N 40.31
32 And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 365N 40.32
33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague. 365N 40.33
34 So he called the name of that place [j] Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving. 365N 40.34
35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Hazeroth, and camped at Hazeroth. 365N 40.35
Numbers 12
1 Then Miriam and Aaron [a] spoke against Moses because of the [b] Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 365N 40.36
2 So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 365N 40.37
3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.) 365N 40.38
4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. 365N 40.39
5 Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. 365N 40.40
6 Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I , the Lord , make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. 365N 40.41
7 Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. 365N 40.42
8 I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, [c] and not in [d] dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord . Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?” 365N 40.43
9 So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed. 365N 40.44
10 And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. 365N 40.45
11 So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not lay [e] this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. 365N 40.46
12 Please do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!” 365N 40.47
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord , saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!” 365N 40.48
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut [f] out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again. ” 365N 40.49
15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. 365N 40.50
16 And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran. 365N 40.51
Numbers 13
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 365N 40.52
2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.” 365N 40.53
3 So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord , all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 365N 40.54
4 Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; 365N 40.55
5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; 365N 40.56
6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 365N 40.57
7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; 365N 40.58
8 from the tribe of Ephraim, [a] Hoshea the son of Nun; 365N 40.59
9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; 365N 40.60
10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; 365N 40.61
11 from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi; 365N 40.62
12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; 365N 40.63
13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; 365N 40.64
14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; 365N 40.65
15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 365N 40.66
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to [b] spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea [c] the son of Nun, Joshua. 365N 40.67
17 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, 365N 40.68
18 and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; 365N 40.69
19 whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; 365N 40.70
20 whether the land is [d] rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. 365N 40.71
21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. 365N 40.72
22 And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 365N 40.73
23 Then they came to the [e] Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 365N 40.74
24 The place was called the Valley of [f] Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. 365N 40.75
25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. 365N 40.76
26 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 365N 40.77
27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly [g] flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 365N 40.78
28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 365N 40.79
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 365N 40.80
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 365N 40.81
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 365N 40.82
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 365N 40.83
33 There we saw the [h] giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like [i] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 365N 40.84