Numbers 11:13
Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? they weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:20But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?
2 Kings 4:43And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.
Matthew 15:33And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?
Mark 9:23And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord: help my unbelief.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →