1 Now the people complained bitterly in the hearing of the Lord; 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.
2 But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.
3 Hence that place was called Taberah, because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.
4 The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!