Numbers 11:21

Then Moses said, “I am with 600,000 people, and you have said, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month.'

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And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

In Context

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?”'”

22Should we kill flocks and herds to satisfy them? Should we catch all the fish in the sea to satisfy them?”

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Cross References

Exodus 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. They numbered about 600,000 men on foot, in addition to the women and children.

Numbers 1:46They counted 603,550 men.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:17-24

Assistance Provided for Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.… Read the whole commentary →

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