Numbers 11:33

But while the people were still biting into the meat, before they even chewed it down, the Lord showed his burning anger against them, killing some of them with a severe disease.

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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

32All through that day and night, and all through the next day, the people went on collecting the quail. Everyone collected at least ten homers, and they spread them out to dry all around the camp.

34They named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because that was where they buried the people who had these intense food cravings.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49However, 14,700 died from the plague in addition to those who'd died because of Korah.

Numbers 25:9but 24,000 had already died.

Psalms 78:26He sent the east wind blowing across the sky; by his power he drove the south wind.

Psalms 78:31God became angry with them and he killed their strongest men, striking them down in the prime of life.

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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