Numbers 11:33

The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was angry with the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered + 11:32 Gr. little. least, gathered ten + 11:32 Gr. cors. measures; and they + 11:32 Gr. refreshed refreshments to themselves. Heb. spread a spreading. וישמחו שמוח refreshed themselves round about the camp.

34And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49And they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that died on account of Core.

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

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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