Numbers 11:22

Is flock and herd slaughtered for them, that one has found [enough] for them? Are all the fishes of the sea gathered for them, that one has found [enough] for them?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

In Context

21And Moses says, “Six hundred thousand footmen [are] the people in whose midst I [dwell]; and You, You have said, I give flesh to them, and they have eaten [for] a month of days!

23And YHWH says to Moses, “Has the hand of YHWH become short? Now you see whether My word meets you or not.”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13From where do I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give flesh to us, and we eat.

Matthew 15:33And His disciples say to Him, “From where to us in a wilderness [will we get] so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?”

Mark 8:4And His disciples answered Him, “From where will anyone be able to feed these here in a wilderness with bread?”

Luke 1:34And Mary said to the messenger, “How will this be, seeing I do not know a husband?”

John 6:9“There is one little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes, but these—what are they to so many?”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:17-24

Assistance Provided for Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.… Read the whole commentary →

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