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Numbers 11:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.” "
Numbers 11:23
Verse in Context
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21 Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
23 The LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
24 Moses went out, and told the people the LORD’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
25 The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
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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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