Numbers 11:33

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

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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

32The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.

34The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.

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

Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78:31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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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