if it is received with gratitude

Numb11 is remarkable; it may be the most human chapter in the Bible in terms of interaction and personality. Here's what I mean:
* You have the start which is the presence of a few people crying like girls about camping out
* You have a greedy rabble
* You have people so used to reliance on God they take it for granted; imagine getting sick of food from Heaven? Since Exo, we've forgotten that all this time, He's still providing! Sad thing is, it isn't that hard to imagine getting sick of this.
* You have Moses trying to calm God down -- but instead of defending the Israelites, he takes a different tack, and uses his relationship with God to wonder what he did to deserve all this mess.
* You have God relenting and providing meat -- but also displaying His anger. You want meat? You want meat? Have all that you can handle till you're sick of that too. This is so something I'd do.
* You end with what you started with -- greedy rabble punished for not valuing how good they had things.

This is the perfect picture of dysfunction. In case you're struggling for the deja vu memory I'll give you a hint. It starts with "golden" and ends with "calf".