Numbers 11:21
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.’
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 12:37 : 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.
- Exod 38:26 : 26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.
- Num 1:46 : 46 And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
- Num 2:32 : 32 Summary These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.
- Gen 12:2 : 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
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- Num 11:22-232 verses83%
22Would 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?”
23And 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!”
- Num 11:10-145 verses82%
10Moses’ Complaint to the Lord Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.
11And 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?
12Did 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?
13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’
14I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!
- Num 11:18-203 verses81%
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.
19You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20but 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?”’”
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4Complaints 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!
- Exod 16:11-122 verses76%
11and 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.’”
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5And 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.”
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8Moses 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.”
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32Moses 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.’”
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37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.
- Exod 16:2-43 verses73%
2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
3The 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!”
4Then 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?
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13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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11The 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?
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6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”
- Exod 16:15-162 verses72%
15When 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.’”
- Num 11:32-332 verses72%
32And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
33But 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.
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46And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
- Exod 17:3-42 verses72%
3But 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?”
4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
- Num 26:51-522 verses72%
51Total Number and Division of the Land These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.
52Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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11and 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?
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16The Response of God The LORD said to Moses,“Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.
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11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
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21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”
- Num 14:26-272 verses71%
26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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.
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30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
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25But Moses said,“Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?
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46and 16,000 people.
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4“Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
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20Yes, 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?”
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4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
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21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.
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19Moses said to them,“No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
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9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
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35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.