Numbers Chapter 11

Lusting for flesh

11:1 AND [when] the people complained, it displeased YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
heard [it]; and his anger was kindled ; and the fire of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the camp.
11:2 And the people cried to Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
; and when Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
prayed to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, the fire was quenched.
11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah (meaning burning) because the fire of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
burnt among them.
11:4 And the collected multitude that [was] among them fell (or lusting) a lusting and the children of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here
also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat ?
11:5 We remember the fish, that we ate
freely in Egyptבְּמִצְרַיִם
Transliteration: bᵊmiṣrayim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here
  ; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic
11:6 But now our soulנַפְשֵׁנוּ
Transliteration: nap̄šēnû – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here
[is] dried up [there is] nothing at all, beside this mannaהַמָּן
Transliteration hammān – meaning ‘What is it?’ the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings For more info click here
, [before] our eyes.
11:7 And the mannaוְהַמָּן
Transliteration: vᵊhammān – meaning ‘What is it?’ the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings For more info click here
[was] like coriander seed, and the color of it as the color of bdellium a fragrant resin produced by a number of trees related to myrrh, used in perfumes. — ORIGIN – late Middle English: via Latin from Greek bdellion, of Semitic origin...
11:8 [And] the people went around, and gathered [it], and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it and the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.
11:9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the mannaהַמָּן
Transliteration mān Pronunciation mawn means ‘What is it?’ the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings For more info click here
fell on it.
11:10 Then Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
heard the people weep throughout their families, each man in the entrance of his tent and the anger of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
  burned greatly ; Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
also was displeased.

Complaint of Moses


11:11 And Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
said to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, Why have you afflicted your servant ? and why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
11:12 Have I conceived all this people ? have I fathered them, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their forefathers ?
11:13 Where should I have flesh to give to all this people ? Because they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
11:14 I am not able to carry all these people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me.
11:15 And if you deal so with me, kill me, I beg you , out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight ; and don’t let me  see my wretchedness.

The seventy elders


11:16 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here
, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tentאֹהֶל
Transliteration: ōhel a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent – For more info click here
of Meetingמוֹעֵד
Transliteration: môʿēḏ appointed place, appointed time, meeting – For more info click here
, that they may stand there with y’all .

11:17 And I will come down and talk with you there and I will take of the spiritהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here
that [is] on you , and will put [it] on them; and they shall carry the burden of the people with you , so that you don’t carry [it] yourself alone.
11:18 And you say to the people, Sanctify yourselvesהִתְקַדְּשׁוּ
Transliteration hiṯqadšû; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly. For more info click here
in the future, and y’all shall eat flesh for y’all have wept in the ears of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat ? for [it was] well with us in Egyptבְּמִצְרָיִם
Transliteration: bᵊmiṣrāyim – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here
so YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
will give you flesh, and y’all shall eat.
11:19 Y’all shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days ;
11:20 [But] even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you because that y’all have despised YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
that [is] among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come out of Egyptמִמִּצְרָיִם
Transliteration: mimmiṣrāyim – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here
?
11:21 And Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
said, The people, among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand infantry ; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be killed for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
11:23 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
, Is YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
‘S hand impatient ? you will see now whether or not my word shall happen to you.
11:24 And Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
went out, and told the people the words of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them around the Tentהָאֹהֶל
Transliteration: hā’ōhel a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent – For more info click here
.
11:25 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spiritהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here
that [was] on him, and gave [it] to the seventy elders and it so happened, [that], when the spiritהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here
rested on them, they prophesied, and didn’t stop.
11:26 But there remained two [of the] men in the camp, the name of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other Medad and the spiritהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here
rested on them; and they [were] of them that were written, but didn’t go out to of the Tentהָאֹהֶל
Transliteration: hā’ōhel a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent – For more info click here
and they prophesied in the camp.
11:27 And
a young man ran , and told Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
, and said, Eldad (meaning God has loved) and Medad (meaning love)  prophesy in the camp.
11:28 And Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַ
Yəhōšuaʿ,(/ˈdʒɒʃuə/), lit. ‘Yahweh is salvation’) also known as Yehoshua. Yeshua or Y’shua (ישוע; with vowel pointing Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ, romanized: Yēšūaʿ) was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, romanized: Yəhōšūaʿ, lit. ’Joshua’) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous (Ἰησοῦς), from which, through the Latin IESVS/Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus meaning salvation.
the son of Nun, the servant of Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
, forbid them.
11:29 And Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
said to him, You
envy for my sake? would that all YAHWEH’s יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
people were prophets, [and] that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
would put His spiritרוּחוֹ
Transliteration: rûḥô – Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here
on them!
11:30 And Mosesמֹשֶׁה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here
got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here
.

Quails sent


11:31 And a wind went out from YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and brought quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and as it were two cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. [high] on the face of the earth.
11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails he that gathered least gathered ten homers and they spread [them] all abroad for themselves around the camp.
11:33 And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
had burned against the people, and YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
struck the people with a very great plague.
11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted.
11:35 [And] the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah to Hazeroth ; and lived at Hazeroth (meaning settlement).

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