Numbers 11:33

As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

In Context

32The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round about the camp.

34And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Numbers 25:9And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Psalms 78:26He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

Psalms 78:31and the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:32-35

The Quails. ( b. c. 1490.) 31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord , and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round… Read the whole commentary →

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