Numbers 11:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:33 : 33 The disciples said to him,“Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”
  • Mark 8:4 : 4 His disciples answered him,“Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”
  • Mark 9:23 : 23 Then Jesus said to him,“‘If you are able?’ All things are possible for the one who believes.”
  • John 6:5-9 : 5 Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) 7 Philip replied,“Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.” 8 One of Jesus’ disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?”

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  • Num 11:14-15
    2 verses
    84%

    14 I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

    15 But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

  • Num 11:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the Spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

    18 “And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

  • Num 11:20-23
    4 verses
    82%

    20 but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”

    21 Moses said,“The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say,‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

    22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

    23 And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”

  • 4 Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!

  • Num 11:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11 And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

    12 Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me,‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

  • 76%

    11 and the LORD spoke to Moses:

    12 “I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them,‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’”

  • 13 But he said to them,“You give them something to eat.” They replied,“We have no more than five loaves and two fish– unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

  • 20 Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

  • Exod 16:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

    4 Then the LORD said to Moses,“I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?

  • 33 The disciples said to him,“Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”

  • 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • 8 Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

  • Exod 17:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

    4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • 6 But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

  • 9 I then said,“I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

  • Mark 8:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

    3 If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

    4 His disciples answered him,“Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

  • Mark 6:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

    37 But he answered them,“You give them something to eat.” And they said,“Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”

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    15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.

    16 “This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

  • 31 if the members of my household have never said,‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’–

  • 11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

  • 29 honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”

  • 27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

  • 4 Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • 9 I also said to you at that time,“I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

  • 16 But he replied,“They don’t need to go. You give them something to eat.”

  • 11 and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • 40 They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

  • 12 But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

  • 20 The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.

  • 32 Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”

  • 15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • 43 But his attendant said,“How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied,“Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the LORD has said,‘They will eat and have some left over.’”

  • 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • 3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”