Here are the 10 complaints by the Children of Israel.
The scriptures, the complaint and the reprimand by YHVH.
1st – Exodus 14:10-12 “Pharaoh approached; the Children of Israel raised their eyes and behold! — Egypt was journeying after them, and they were very frightened; the Children of Israel cried out to YHVH. They said to Moses, ‘Were there no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the Widerness? What is this that you have done to us to take us out of Egypt? Is this not the statement that we made to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us be and we will serve Egypt’? — for it us better that we should serve Egypt than that we should die in the Wilderness!”
Moses said to the people “Do not fear!” Stand fast and see the salvation of YHVH that He will perform for you today; for as you have seen Egypt today, you shall not see them ever again! YHVH shall make war for you and you shall remain silent. (vs. 13-14) YHVH told Moses Speak to the Children of Israel and let them journey forth. Moses was to lift his staff and stretch out his arm over the sea and split it; and the Children of Israel shall come into the midst of the sea on dry land. (vs. 15-16).
YHVH told Moses that He would strengthen the heart of Egypt and they will come after the Children of Israel, that He would be glorified through Pharaoh, through his army, through his chariots, and through his horseman. Egypt will know that He is YHVH when He glorified Himself through Pharoah, his chariots and his horsemen. (vs. 17-18)
2nd – Ex 15:23-24 “They came to Marah, but they could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter; therefore they named it Marah. The people complained against Moses saying, ‘What shall we drink'”.
Moses cried out to YHVH and YHVH showed him a tree. Moses threw the tree into the water and the water became sweet (vs. 25).
YHVH established at Marah a decree and an ordinance and He tested it here. “If you hearken diligently to the voice of YHVH, your God, and do what is just in His eyes, give ear to His commandments and observe all His decrees, then any of the diseases that I placed in Egypt, I will not bing upon you for I am YHVH, your Healer.” (vs. 25-26)
3rd – Ex 16:2 – 3 “The entire assembly of the Children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Children of Israel said to them, ‘If only we had died by the hand of HaShem in the land of Egypt, as we say by the pot of meat, when we ate bread to satiety, for you have taken us out to this Wilderness to kill this entire congregation by famine.'”
YHVH tells Moses that he will rain down food from the heaven the people are to go out and pick each day’s portion on its day. So that He can test them to see if we will follow His teaching or not. And on the sixth day they are to pick double what they pick every day. (vs. 4-5).
YHVH spoke to Moses saying “I have heard the complaints of the Children of Israel, Speak to them, saying, ‘In the afternoon you shall ear meat and in the morning you shall be sated with bread, and you shall know that I am YHVH your God.’” (vs. 11-12)
4th – Ex 17:1-2 ….”They encamped in Rephidim and there was no water for the people to drink. The people contended with Moses and they said, ‘Give us water that we may drink!’ ….The people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and it said, ‘Why is this that you have brought us up from Egypt to kill me and my children and my livestock through thirst?'”
YHVH tells Moses to pass before the people and take with him some of the elders of Israel. Take your staff in hand and go. YHVH will stand before him by the rock in Horeb. Moses is to strike the rock and water will come forth from it and the people will drink.
This place is named Massah U’Meribah – “test and contention” because of the contention of the Children of Israel and because of their test of YHVH saying, “Is YHVH among us or not?”
5th –Ex 32:1 – 10 (Only verses 1, 7-8 are listed here) “The people saw that Moses had delayed in descending the mountain, and the people gathered around Aaron and said t him, ‘Rise up, make for us gods that will go before us, for this man Moses who brought us up from the land of Egypt — we do not know what became of him!’ …..YHVH spoke to Moses: ‘Go, Descend — for your people that you brought up from the land of Egypt has become corrupt. They have strayed quickly from the way that I have commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, prostrated themselves to it and sacrificed to it, and they said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt'”
Moses saw the people, that it was exposed, for Aaron had exposed them to disgrace among those who rise up against them. …YHVH said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I shall erase him from My book. Now, go and lead the people to where I have told you. Behold! My angel shall go before you, and on the day that I make My account, I shall bring their sin to account against them. Then YHVH struck the people with a plague, because they had made the calf that Aaron had made. (vs. 25, 33-35)
6th – Num 11:1-2 — “The people took to seeking complaints; it was evil in the ears of YHVH, and YHVH heard and His wrath flared, and a fire of YHVH burned against them and it consumed at the edge of the camp.
The people cried out to Moses; Moses prayed to YHVH, and the fire died down.
This place is named Taberah “Conflagration” for the fire of YHVH burned against them.
7th – Num 11:4-6 — The rabble that was among them cultivated a craving, and the Children of Israel also wept once more, and said, ‘Who will feed us meat? We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge; the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. But now, our life is parched, there is nothing; we have nothing to anticipate but the manna!'”
“To the people you shall say, ‘Prepare yourselves for tomorrow and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the ears of YHVH, saying: Who will feed us meat, for it was better for us in Egypt! So YHVH will give you meat and you will eat. Not for one day shall you eat, nor two days, nor five days, not ten days, nor twenty days. Until an entire month of days, until it comes out of your nose, and becomes nauseating to you…. The meat was still between their teeth, not yet chewed, when the wrath of YHVH flared against the people, and YHVH struck a very mighty blow against the people.” (vs. 18-20, 33).
8th — Ex 11:20 …”because you have rejected YHVH Who is in your midst, and you have wept before Him saying: Why did we leave Egypt?”
He named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been craving. (vs. 34).
This place is named Kibroth-hattaavah “Graves of Lust”.
9th — Num 12:1 – 3 — “Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses regarding the Cushite woman he had married for he had married a Cushite woman. They said, ‘Was it only to Moses that YHVH spoke? Did He not speak to us as well?’ And YHVH heard. Now the man Moses was exceedingly humble, more than any person on the face of the earth!
“‘…Hear now My words. If there shall be prophets among you, in a vision shall I YHVH make Myself known to him; in a dream shall I speak with him. Not so is My servant Moses; in My entire house he is the trusted one. Mouth to mouth do I speak to him, in a clear vision and not in riddles, at the image of YHVH does he gaze. Why did you not fear to speak against My servant Moses?’ …The cloud had departed from atop the Tent, and behold! Miriam was afflicted with tzaraas, like snow! Aaron turned to Miriam and behold! She was afflicted with tzaraas….So Miriam was quarantined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey until Miriam was brought in.” (vs. 6-8, 15)
This complaint happened in Hazeroth “settlement”.
10th — Num 14:2-4, “All the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the entire assembly said to them, ‘If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this Wilderness! Why is YHVH bringing us to this Land to die by the sword? Our wives and young children will be taken captive! Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?’ So they said to one another, ‘Let us appoint a leader and let us return to Egypt!'”
YHVH said to Moses, ‘How long will this people provoke Me, and how long will they not have faith in me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst?…’; “….In this Wilderness shall your carcasses drop; all of you who were counted in any of your numberings, from twenty years of age and above, whom you provoked against Me;….Your children will roam in the Wilderness for forty years and bear your guilt, until the last of your carcasses in the Wilderness. Like the umber of the days that you spied out the Land, forty days a day for a year, a day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities — forty years — and you shall comprehend straying from me. I YHVH have spoken — if I shall not do this to this entire evil assembly that gathers against me! In this Wilderness shall they cease to be, and there shall they die!” (vs. 11, [see also 29, 36-37] 31-35).
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All of these complaints are true, and it is sad how much they complained just because they did not have water, even though God was right there with them the whole time.
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All of these complaints are true, and it is sad how much they complained just because they did not have water, even though God was right there with them the whole time.
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