Numbers 11:33

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe 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

32All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Psalms 78:26He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalms 78:31God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

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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