Numbers 11:33

Then they cooked them and started to eat them. But while they were still eating the meat [MTY], Yahweh showed that he was very angry with them. He struck them with a severe plague/sickness, and many people died.

Translation for Translators

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

32So the people went out and gathered up the quail all that day, and all that night, and all of the following day. It seemed as though everyone gathered at least 50 bushels! They spread the quail out on the ground all around the camp, so that the quail would dry out.

34The people who died and were buried were the ones who had said they wanted to eat meat like they had formerly eaten in Egypt. So they called that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, which means ‘graves of those who craved’.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49But 14,700 people had already died from that plague/sickness, in addition to the people who died with Korah.

Numbers 25:9But 24,000 people had already died from that plague.

Psalms 78:26Later, he caused the wind to blow from the east, and by his power he also sent wind from the south,

Psalms 78:31God was still very angry with them, and he caused their strongest men to die; he got rid of many of the finest young Israeli men.

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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