Numbers 11:34

And 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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

In Context

33As 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.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:16But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust.

1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.

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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