Numbers 11:22

Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

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In The King James Version

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

In Context

21And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

23And LORD said to Moses, Is LORD's hand grown short? Now thou shall see whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Matthew 15:33And his disciples say to him, From where are so many loaves for us in a wilderness so as to feed so great a multitude?

Mark 8:4And his disciples answered him, From where will anyone be able to fill these men of loaves here in a desolate place?

Luke 1:34And Mary said to the agent, How will this be, since I know not a man?

John 6:9There is one child here that has five barley loaves and two fishes, but what are these for so many?

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:17-24

Assistance Provided for Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.… Read the whole commentary →

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