Numbers 11:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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!

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 12:38 : 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds– a very large number of cattle.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  • Lev 24:10-11 : 10 A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp. 11 The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses.(Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
  • Neh 13:3 : 3 When they heard the law, they removed from Israel all who were of mixed ancestry.
  • Ps 78:18-20 : 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite. 19 They insulted God, saying,“Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness? 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?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 11:13-14
    2 verses
    80%

    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
    80%

    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.

  • Exod 16:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    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?

  • Num 11:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

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

  • Num 11:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    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?”’”

    21Moses 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.’

    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?”

  • Num 14:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

    3Why 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?”

    4So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    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.”

  • Ps 78:18
    73%

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

  • Num 11:31-34
    4 verses
    73%

    31Provision of Quail Now a wind went out from the LORD and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

    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.

    34So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

  • Exod 17:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    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!”

  • Exod 16:8
    72%

    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.”

  • Exod 16:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    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.’”

  • Ps 78:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29They ate until they were beyond full; he gave them what they desired.

    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • Exod 12:38
    72%

    38A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds– a very large number of cattle.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

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

  • Ps 106:14
    71%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Exod 16:15
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 14:11
    70%

    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?

  • Num 11:1
    70%

    1The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

  • Ps 78:20
    70%

    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?”

  • Job 31:31
    69%

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

  • Exod 15:24
    69%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Num 11:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

    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.

  • Ps 105:40
    68%

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

  • Deut 1:27
    68%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 14:27
    68%

    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.

  • Exod 16:32
    67%

    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.’”