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Numbers 11:32 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The 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. "
Numbers 11:32
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30 Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 A wind from the LORD went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
32 The 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.
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.
34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
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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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