Numbers 11:33 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 11:33

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

BSB

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ASV

While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.

KJV

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The wrath of the Lord was kindled - In what way, and with what effects, we cannot precisely determine. Some heavy judgment fell upon those murmurers and complainers, but of what kind the sacred writer says nothing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Chewed - Hebrew. cut off, namely from their mouths. A very great plague - Probably the pestilence. But the sense is, before they had done eating their quails, which lasted for a month.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is evident, however, that the language describes the countless number of these quails. as it were two cubits high--Some have supposed that they fell on the ground above each other to that height--a supposition which would leave a vast quantity useless as food to the Israelites, who were forbidden to eat any animal that died of itself or from which the blood was not poured out.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

On a former occasion their murmurings for flesh were raised (Ex 16:1-8) because they were in want of food. Here they proceeded, not from necessity, but wanton, lustful desire; and their sin, in the righteous judgment of God, was made to carry its own punishment.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַבָּשָׂ֗ר	ha.ba.Sar	the meat	H1320 →
עוֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙	o.De.nu	still it	H5750 →
בֵּ֣ין	bein	[was] between	H996 →
שִׁנֵּיהֶ֔ם	shi.nei.Hem	teeth their	H8127 →
טֶ֖רֶם	Te.rem	not yet	H2962 →
יִכָּרֵ֑ת	yi.ka.Ret	it was chewed	H3772 →
וְאַ֤ף	ve.'Af	and [the] anger of	H639 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
חָרָ֣ה	cha.Rah	it burned	H2734 →
בָעָ֔ם	va.'Am	on the people	H5971 →
וַיַּ֤ךְ	vai.Yakh	and he struck	H5221 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בָּעָ֔ם	ba.'Am	<on> the people	H5971 →
מַכָּ֖ה	ma.Kah	a plague	H4347 →
רַבָּ֥ה	ra.Bah	great	H7227 →
מְאֹֽד׃	me.'Od	very	H3966 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 25:9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
  We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- Deuteronomy 4:3–4
  Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
- Numbers 25:4–5
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Through
Deuteronomy 28:27
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 5:6
  Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- Leviticus 21:20
  or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
- Exodus 9:9
  It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
- Exodus 15:26
  saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
- Deuteronomy 28:35
  The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Numbers

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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