Numbers 11:33

While the meat was still between their teeth, while they were chewing it, Yahweh became angry at them. He attacked the people with a very great disease.

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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

32The people were busy gathering quail all that day, all the night, and all the next day. No one gathered less than ten homers of quail. They shared the quail all through the camp.

34That place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49Those who died by the plague were 14,700 in number, besides those who had died in the matter of Korah.

Numbers 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.

Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky, 1 and by his power he guided the south wind. 1

Psalms 78:31Then God's anger attacked them 1 and killed the strongest of them. 1 He brought down the young men of Israel. 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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