20 But a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and be loathsome unto you, because ye have [a]contemned the Lord, which is [b]among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we hither out of Egypt?

21 And Moses said, Six hundred thousand footmen are there of the people, [c]among whom I am: and thou sayest, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a month long.

22 Shall the sheep and the beeves be slain for them to find them? either shall all the fish of the Sea be gathered together for them to suffice them?

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:20 Or, cast him off, because ye refused Manna, which he appointed as most meet for you.
  2. Numbers 11:20 Who leadeth and governeth you.
  3. Numbers 11:21 Of whom I have the charge.

20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it(A)—because you have rejected the Lord,(B) who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”(C)

21 But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men(D) on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’ 22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”(E)

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