¹Zvino vanhu vakaita savanyunyuti, vakataura zvakaipa munzeve dzaJehovha; ipapo Jehovha akati azvinzwa, akatsamwa kwazvo, moto waJehovha ukapfuta pakati pavo, ukaparadza kumudzivo wemisasa.

¹The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

²Vanhu vakachema kuna Mozisi, Mozisi akanyengetera kuna Jehovha, moto ukadzimwa.

²The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

³Zita renzvimbo iyo rikanzi Tabhera, nekuti moto waJehovha wakapfutapo pakati pavo.

³The name of that place was called Taberah Taberah means “burning” , because Yahweh’s fire burnt among them.

⁴Zvino vatorwa vazhinji, vakanga vari pakati pavo, vakatanga kufa nenhomba yenyama; navana vaIsiraeri vakachemawo, vakati, Ndianiko achatipa nyama kuti tidye?

⁴The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat?

⁵Tinorangarira hove dzataidya Egipita, tisingatengi, namakeke, namamwiwa, nerikisi, nehanyanisi, negariki.

⁵We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

⁶Asi zvino mweya yedu yaoma, hapana zvokudya chose, hapana chinhu chatinoona, asi mana*iyi chete.

⁶but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

⁷mana*yakanga yakafanana nembeu dzekorianderi, yakanga yakaita sebhedharo.

⁷The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

⁸Vanhu vaipararira kundoinonga, vakaikuya pamakuyo, kana kuitswa mumaturi, nokuibika muhari, nokuita zvingwa zviduku nayo; kana yodyiwa yakaita sezvingwa zvakabikwa namafuta.

⁸The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

⁹Kana dova richiwira pamisasa usiku, mana*yakawawo pamwechete naro.

⁹When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

¹⁰Zvino Mozisi akanzwa vanhu vachichema padzimba dzavo dzose, mumwe nomumwe pamukova wetende rake; Jehovha akatsamwa kwazvo; naiye Mozisi akanga asingafari.

¹⁰Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

¹¹Mozisi akati kuna Jehovha, Makaitireiko muranda wenyu zvakaipa? Ndakaregereiko kunzwirwa nyasha nemi, zvamakanditakudza mutoro wavanhu ava vose?

¹¹Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

¹²Ko ndini ndakagamuchira vanhu ava vose here? Ko ndini ndakavabereka here, zvamunoti kwandiri, Uvatakure pachipfuva chako, somureri anotakura mwana anomwa, uvaise kunyika yamakapikira madzibaba avo?

¹²Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

¹³Ndichawanepiko nyama yandingapa vanhu ava vose? Nekuti vanondichemera, vachiti, Tipe nyama, tidye.

¹³Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

¹⁴Handigoni kutakura vanhu ava vose ndoga, nekuti zvinondiremera kwazvo.

¹⁴I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

¹⁵Kana muchida kundiitira saizvozvo, chindiurayai henyu kamwe, kana ndanzwirwa nyasha nemi, ndirege hangu kuona urombo hwangu.

¹⁵If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

¹⁶Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Unganidza kwandiri varume vana makumi manomwe vavakuru vaIsiraeri, vaunoziva kuti vakuru vavanhu, navaritariri vavo, uuye navo patende rokusangana, kuti vamirepo newe.

¹⁶Yahweh 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; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

¹⁷Ipapo ndichaburuka, nditaure newe ipapo; zvino ndichatora pamweya uri pamusoro pako, ndikauisa pamusoro pavo; ivo vachatakura mutoro wavanhu pamwechete newe, kuti urege kuutakura iwe woga.

¹⁷I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

¹⁸Zvino iwe uti kuvanhu, Zvinatsirei mangwana, nekuti muchadya nyama; nekuti makachema munzeve dzaJehovha, muchiti, Ndianiko uchatipa nyama, tidye? Nekuti takanga tichifara hedu Egipita. Naizvozvo Jehovha achakupai nyama, mudye.

¹⁸“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.

¹⁹Hamungadyi zuva rimwe, kana mazuva maviri, kana mazuva mashanu, kana mazuva ane gumi, kana mazuva ana makumi maviri;

¹⁹You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,

²⁰asi mwedzi wose, kusvikira ichibuda kumhino dzenyu, ikakusemesai; nekuti makarasha Jehovha ari pakati penyu, mukachema pamberi pake, muchiti, Takabudireiko Egipita?

²⁰but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

²¹Zvino Mozisi akati, Vanhu ava, vandiri pakati pavo, vanofamba namakumbo, vanosvika zviuru zvina mazana matanhatu, zvino moti: Ndichavapa nyama, vaidye mwedzi wose!

²¹Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.’

²²Ko vachabayirwa makwai nemombe, kuti varingane here? Kana vangaunganidzirwa hove dzose dziri mugungwa, kuti varingane here?

²²Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

²³Ipapo Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Ko ruoko rwaJehovha rwakafupiswa here? Uchaona hako zvino kana shoko rangu richiitika kana risingaitiki

²³Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

²⁴ipapo Mozisi akabuda, akandoudza vanhu mashoko aJehovha; akaunganidza vanhu vana makumi manomwe vavakuru vavanhu, akavapotedza tende.

²⁴Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

²⁵Ipapo Jehovha akaburuka mugore, akataura naye, akatora pamweya wakange uri pamusoro pake, akauisa pamusoro pavakuru avo vana makumi manomwe; zvino mweya wakati uchigara pamusoro pavo, ivo vakaporofita, asi havana kuzoitazve saizvozvo.

²⁵Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

²⁶Asi varume vaviri vakasara pamisasa, zita romumwe rainzi Eridhadhi, nezita romumwe Medhadhi; mweya ukagara pamusoro pavo, nekuti vakanga vakanyorwa, asi havana kubudira kutende; vakaporofita pamisasa.

²⁶But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

²⁷Zvino mumwe mukomana akamhanya, akandoudza Mozisi, akati, Eridhadhi naMedhadhi vanoporofita pamisasa.

²⁷A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

²⁸Ipapo Joshua, mwanakomana waNuni, muranda waMozisi kubva paujaya hwake, akapindura, akati, Ishe wangu, Mozisi, vadzivisei.

²⁸Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”

²⁹Mozisi akati kwaari, Ko une shungu nokuda kwangu here? Dai vanhu vose vaJehovha vaiva vaporofita, Jehovha akaisa mweya wake pamusoro pavo!

²⁹Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

³⁰Ipapo Mozisi akaenda kumisasa, iye navakuru vaIsiraeri.

³⁰Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

³¹Zvino mhepo yakabva kuna Jehovha, ikauyisa zvihuta, zvaibva kugungwa, ikazvikandira pamisasa kumativi ose, zvikaita rwendo rwezuva rimwe kurutivi rumwe, norwendo rwezuva rimwezve kuno rumwe rutivi rwemisasa, nomurwi wakakwirira makubhiti maviri pamusoro penyika.

³¹A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.

³²Zvino vanhu vakasimuka zuva iro rose, nousiku uhwo hwose, neramangwana rose, vakaunganidza zvihuta. Wakaunganidza zvishoma wakaunganidza mahomeri ane gumi, vakazvinika kumativi ose emisasa.

³²The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.

³³Nyama yakanga ichiri pakati pameno avo, isati yatsengwa, kutsamwa kwaJehovha kukamukira vanhu, Jehovha akarova vanhu nehosha yakaipa kwazvo.

³³While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

³⁴Naizvozvo nzvimbo iyo yakatumidzwa Kibhuroti-hatava, nekuti ndipo pavakaviga vanhu vakanga vafa nenhomba yenyama.

³⁴The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust.” because there they buried the people who lusted.

³⁵Vanhu vakasimuka vakabva Kibhuroti-hatava vakasvika Hazeroti; vakagara paHazeroti.

³⁵From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.