In the exhortation of the Damascus Document of the Dead Sea Scrolls the writer states "and they did not obey the voice of Moses....they went about spreading lies about His laws, and from God's covenant they strayed." p. 51 The Dead Sea Scrolls, Wise, Abegg, Cook, HarperSanFrancico, 1996.  The Essene writers of the Damascus Document echoed a sentiment we see also in the Ebionites described by Epiphanius in his Panarion, namely, that Jesus and his associates did not eat flesh and did not believe the Pentateuch as it stands was written by Moses, but by false scribes. "The Words of Moses" in the Dead Sea Scrolls also portray a Moses who tells the Israelites to eat produce and be satisfied.  Similarly, in "Epistle to the Hebrews," one of the least discussed of all Christian documents, the writer says that Jesus was faithful to his mission just as Moses was, and the epistle points to the incident of the quail in Numbers 11 as an example of the Israelites transgressing God's covenant and Moses' command to follow that covenant.  Other parts of this study show how Moses had used the teachings of Enoch, as seen in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, to write the book of Genesis.  The Book of Enoch of course condemns all bloodshed, and says, as Jesus does in his Beatitudes and as John does in "Revelations," that in the final days the poor and the meek shall inherit the earth.  It is in this book that the term, Son of Man, appears.  Jesus refers to the Son of Man, and therefore the Book of Enoch, so frequently that Jesus must be described as Enochian. 
 

   In the eleventh chapter of "Numbers," we see several proofs of the original vegetarianism of the Jews.  "Numbers" 1: 11 describes those craving flesh as the undesirable element among the Israelites, the "rabble":

"The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!'"

"...therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall not eat one day, or two days or five days, or ten days or twenty days, but a month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you ."
 
 

The Eleventh Chapter of "Numbers" Contradicts with a Vengeance
the Gist of "Leviticus" and "Exodus,"
that Yahweh commanded Moses to institute the animal sacrifices.

 

The Coming of the Plague Ridden Quail

"While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was yet consumed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote them with a very great plague. Therefore the name of the place was called Grave of Craving, because there they buried the people who had the craving."

    "Epistle to the Hebrews" nonetheless recognizes a vegetarian Moses who was provoked by those craving to eat flesh. This is in harmony with the Jesus of the Ebionite Gospel, and the Gospel of the Nazirenes, and with the Jesus who constantly refers to the coming of the son of Man as preached in the teachings of Enoch, which forbid all bloodshed.  Chapter 3 of "Epistle to the Hebrews" advocates loyalty to Jesus, seeing him as faithful to his mission just as Moses had been.

"He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house."  "Hebrews" 3: 2

     "Today when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.  Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious?  Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses:  And with whom was he provoked forty years?  Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?  And to whom did he swear they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?  So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. "Hebrews" 3: 15-18.

"By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him." Hebrews 11: 5

   So, in the very same New Testament which asserts that Jesus said "all foods are clean" and that asserts Peter had a vision to "Rise and kill and eat" we have also scriptures asserting that Moses was faithful to the original (vegetarian) covenant, and that he was provoked by those who ate flesh and whose bodies died, fell in the wilderness, because of craving flesh and eating the plague ridden quail.

   Moreover, the following passage from "Epistle to the Hebrews," derived from Psalm 40 by David, is rarely quoted by Christians because it shows a Jesus who did not believe "all foods are clean."

 "For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins."  "Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired, but a body hast thou prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure.  Then I said, `Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."  "Epistle to the Hebrews," 10: 4-7.

    However, in context of other scriptures contained in "Numbers," that show the Israelites sacrificing animals, the eleventh chapter of "Numbers" doesn't make sense, for the sacrificing of animals and eating them is not seen as negative in the other chapters.  Therefore,  realizing that the first dietary covenant was vegetarian, as is admitted even by the rabbinical orthodoxy of Judaism, the objective reader must conclude that most of the scriptures in the book of "Numbers," like most of the scriptures in other books of the Torah, are revisions.  If there were no vegetarian covenant in Genesis 1: 29, then "Numbers 11" would obviously be seen as the revised chapter.  But the vegetarian covenant stares in the face of the orthodox, challenging them to use their own mental discernment and to test the scriptures, rather than to succumb to the moral absurdities preached by the carnivorous orthodoxies of the world, who say Yahweh, who is all perfect and omniscient, changed His unalterable mind.