Numbers 11:19
in Numbers 11You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
KJV
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
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This verse in Numbers 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Sanctify yourselves against to morrow
on Numbers 11:18-20
The word used for preparing a nation to meet God at Exodus 19:10 is used here for preparing to eat meat, and the meat comes as a sentence rather than as a kindness. The measure climbs by steps, one day, two days, five, ten, twenty, and then a whole month until it comes out at their nostrils and is loathsome to them. Verse 20 names the offence in the plainest terms the chapter uses, that they have despised the LORD which is among them and have asked why they came out of Egypt. Psalm 78:29-31 tells the same episode and says he gave them their own desire.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Ye shall not eat one day,.... Only, as in Exo 16:12, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; but even thirty days, a whole month, as in Num 11:20.
Ye shall not eat one day,.... Only, as in Exo 16:12, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; but even thirty days, a whole month, as in Num 11:20.
(2.) What brutish sins (and worse than brutish) gluttony and drunkenness are; they put a force upon nature, and make that the sickness of the body which should be its health; they are sins that are their own punishments, and yet not the worst that attend them. (3.) What a righteous thing it is with God to make that loathsome to men which they have inordinately lusted after.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh--that is, "prepare yourselves," by repentance and submission, to receive to-morrow the flesh you clamor for. But it is evident that the tenor of the language implied a severe rebuke and that the blessing promised would prove a curse.
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The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| י֥וֹם | yom | a day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אֶחָ֛ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| תֹּאכְל֖וּן | tokhlun | you will eat ! | H398 → | 810 times |
| וְלֹ֣א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יוֹמָ֑יִם | yomayim | two days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וְלֹ֣א׀ | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| חֲמִשָּׁ֣ה | chamishah | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| יָמִ֗ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וְלֹא֙ | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| עֲשָׂרָ֣ה | ʾasarah | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| יָמִ֔ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וְלֹ֖א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| יֽוֹם׃ | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
י֥וֹםa day
yomH3117 →2304 times
אֶחָ֛דone
ʾechadH259 →971 times
תֹּאכְל֖וּןyou will eat !
tokhlunH398 →810 times
וְלֹ֣אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
יוֹמָ֑יִםtwo days
yomayimH3117 →2304 times
וְלֹ֣א׀and not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
חֲמִשָּׁ֣הfive
chamishahH2568 →343 times
יָמִ֗יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
וְלֹא֙and not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
עֲשָׂרָ֣הten
ʾasarahH6235 →176 times
יָמִ֔יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
וְלֹ֖אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
יֽוֹם׃day[s]
yomH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.