. The Bible and its . the way was long and hard; so that as the days passed,the fickle Israelites began to murmur. For a year theyhad lived on manna, and they were grown very wearyof it. They recalled all the pleasant things they hadeaten in Egjpt. Especially they longed for meat. Mosesknew of their cra\ing and appealed to God for aid; butthe great giver of all was displeased that His gifts shouldbe so little valued, and He declared that the people shouldbe punished by being so stuffed with meat that they couldeat no more. When Moses questioned how this shouldbe possible
. The Bible and its . the way was long and hard; so that as the days passed,the fickle Israelites began to murmur. For a year theyhad lived on manna, and they were grown very wearyof it. They recalled all the pleasant things they hadeaten in Egjpt. Especially they longed for meat. Mosesknew of their cra\ing and appealed to God for aid; butthe great giver of all was displeased that His gifts shouldbe so little valued, and He declared that the people shouldbe punished by being so stuffed with meat that they couldeat no more. When Moses questioned how this shouldbe possible with so vast a multitude, and in so bare a region,God answered him with His solemn question, Is theLords hand waxed short? Thereon there came a vast cloud of quails, which cov-ered the camp and spread for a days journey on eitherside. For two days the Israelites ate of them. Then,while the flesh was yet between their teeth, God smotethem with a plague, so that those who had lusted most forthe flesh food, perished there. 11-74. jWiriam anb 2laron Complain FROM A SIXTEENTH CEXTURl And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses becauseof the Ethiopian woman wliom he had married.—Num.,12, 1. THE next of Moses trials came from his own people,the elder brother who had been his mouthpiece,the elder sister who had saved him in grew jealous, not of INIoses, apparently, but of hiswife, either Zipporah or a second mate newly wedded; andthey began to assert an independent leadership, claimingthat God had spoken through them as well as throughMoses. The quaint old print that here depicts the story, is oneof those mediaeval pictures where the successive steps areall shown at once. In the foreground Miriam and Aaronassert themselves against Moses and his wife. To theritrht, God, from within the tabernacle, summons the rebelsbefore Him and rebukes them. In the background arethe final scenes. INIiriam is stricken suddenly with leprosy;Aaron, terrified, intercedes for her; Mose
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