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Numbers 11:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ "
Numbers 11:13
Verse in Context
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11 Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?
13 Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
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Numbers 11:1
"The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp."
Numbers 11:2
"The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated."
Numbers 11:3
"The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD’s fire burned among them."
Numbers 11:4
"The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?"
Numbers 11:5
"We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;"
Numbers 11:6
"but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”"
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