Numbers 11:33

The flesh is yet between their teeth — it is not yet cut off — and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people — a very great smiting;

Young's Literal Translation

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

32And the people rise all that day, and all the night, and all the day after, and gather the quails — he who hath least hath gathered ten homers — and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.

34and [one] calleth the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, for there they have buried the people who lust.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah;

Numbers 25:9and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

Psalms 78:26He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind,

Psalms 78:31And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

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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