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Numbers 11:13

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Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

KJV

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

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This verse in Numbers 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Have I conceived all this people

on Numbers 11:12-13

Moses answers the weight laid on him with two images out of childbirth and nursing, asking whether he conceived this people or begot them, that he should carry them in his bosom as a nursing father bears a sucking child. The same figure is used of God at Deuteronomy 1:31, where the LORD bare Israel as a man bears his son, and again at Isaiah 46:3-4. Verse 13 puts the practical question, whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people, and Matthew Henry reads it as limiting the Holy One of Israel rather than as asking for instructions.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Moses gave them not the bread, John vi. Nor was it expected that he should give them the flesh, but as an instrument in God's hand; and if he meant, "Whence should God have it for them?" he too much limited the power of the Holy One of Israel. (6.) He speaks distrustfully of the divine grace when he despairs of being able to bear all this people,

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מֵאַ֤יִןfrom where?

    meayinH370 →

  • לִי֙[belong] to <the> me

    li

  • בָּשָׂ֔ר[will] meat

    basarH1320 →270 times

  • לָתֵ֖תto give [it]

    latetH5414 →2011 times

  • לְכָל־to all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֣םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יִבְכּ֤וּthey are weeping

    yivkuH1058 →114 times

  • עָלַי֙to me

    ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • תְּנָה־give !

    tenah-H5414 →2011 times

  • לָּ֥נוּto <the> us

    lanu

  • בָשָׂ֖רmeat

    vasarH1320 →270 times

  • וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃so let us eat

    venokhelahH398 →810 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Mark 6:37But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”5 worksMark 8:4His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”4 worksMatthew 15:33The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”4 worksLeviticus 25:20Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’3 worksPsalms 78:19They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?3 worksJohn 6:5–9When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Mark 9:23“If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Mark 9:23

    “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”

    it leads to

    • John 11:40

      Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

    • Hebrews 11:6

      And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

    • Matthew 17:20

      “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’…

    • Mark 11:23

      “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will…

    • Matthew 21:21–22

      “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain,…

  • Through

    Mark 8:4

    His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”

    it leads to

    • Matthew 15:33

      The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”

    • Mark 6:52

      for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

    • Mark 6:36–37

      Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 11 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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