Numbers 11:4

And the mixed multitude who were among them demanded with demand; and the children of Israel also turned, and wept, and said: Who will feed us with flesh?

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

In Context

3And Mosheh called the name of that place Enkindlement; because the fire had been kindled against them from before the Lord.

5We remember the fish which we ate in Mizraim freely, the cucumbers and melons, the cresses and onions and garlick.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said to them,

Leviticus 24:10And the son of a woman, a daughter of Israel, but he was the son of a Mizraite man went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman, and a man, a son of Israel, had contention in the camp.

Numbers 14:1And all the congregation lifted up and gave (forth) their voice; and all the people wept that night.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:2-4

The Murmurings of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord : and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord , the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them. Here is, I. The people's sin. They complained, v. 1 . They were,… Read the whole commentary →

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