Numbers 11:33

The flesh was yet between their teeth, it was not yet chewed: when the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote among the people a very great plague.

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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

32And the people arose all that day, and all that night, and all the following day, and they gathered the quails; he that had taken the least, had gathered ten chomers: and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.

34And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they buried the people that had lustfully craved.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49(17:14) And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that had died about the matter of Korach.

Numbers 25:9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Psalms 78:26He caused an east wind to pass along the heavens; and he led forth by his strength the south wind.

Psalms 78:31When the wrath of God ascended against them, and he slew some of the fattest of them, and the young men of Israel did he strike down.

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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