Numbers 11:13

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

12I — have I conceived all this people? I — have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers?

14I am not able — I alone — to bear all this people, for [it is] too heavy for me;

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Cross References

Numbers 11:20unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who [is] in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? — we have come out of Egypt!'

2 Kings 4:43And his minister saith, 'What — do I give this before a hundred men?' and he saith, 'Give to the people, and they eat, for thus said Jehovah, Eat and leave;'

Matthew 15:33And his disciples say to him, 'Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

Mark 9:23And Jesus said to him, 'If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

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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