The promise and warning of meat

18And to the people you shall say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of Yahweh, saying, “Who will feed us meat? For it was good for us in Egypt.” And Yahweh will give you meat, and you shall eat.”

19You will eat not for one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

20for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you and have wept before him, saying, ‘Why did we ever come out of Egypt?’”