Numbers 11:13

Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

In Context

12Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?

14I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:20ye shall eat for + 11:20 Gr. a month of days.a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be + 11:20 Lit. cholera.nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?

2 Kings 4:43And his servant said, Why should I set this before a hundred men? and he said, Give to the people, and let them eat; for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat and leave.

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 →

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