Numbers 11:33

And while the basar was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Hashem was kindled against the people, and Hashem struck down the people with a makkah rabbah me'od (a very great plague).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 stood up all that yom, and kol halailah, and all the next day, and they gathered in the quail; he that gathered least gathered ten chomers; and they spread them all out for themselves round about the machaneh.

34And the shem of that place was called Kivrot-Hata'avah (graves of greed) because there they buried the people that lusted.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:9And those that were the mesim (dead ones) in the maggefah (plague) were twenty and four thousand. 1 [PINCHAS]

Psalms 78:26He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim; 1 and by His oz He brought in the south wind. 1

Psalms 78:31The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them, 1 and slaughtered the stoutest of them, 1 and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel. 1

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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