Numbers 11:13

Where can I find meat to give to all this people? They are weeping in front of me and are saying, 'Give us meat to eat.'

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In The King James Version

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

In Context

12Did I conceive all these people? Have I given them birth so that you should say to me, 'Carry them closely to your chest as a father carries a baby?' Should I carry them to the land that you swore to their ancestors to give them?

14I cannot bear all these people alone. They are too much for me.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:20but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, “Why did we leave Egypt?”'”

2 Kings 4:43His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But Elisha said, “Give this to the people, so they can eat, because Yahweh says, 'They will eat and will have some left.'”

Matthew 15:33The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough loaves of bread in such a deserted place to satisfy so large a crowd?”

Mark 9:23Jesus said to him, “'If you are able'? All things are possible for the one who believes.”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16

4 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? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →

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