Numbers 11 (NET)

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Numbers 11:1¹When the people complained, it displeased the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:5 2 Kgs 1:12 Num 16:35 Exod 16:9 1 Cor 10:10 Lev 10:2 2 Sam 11:27 Deut 32:22 Deut 9:22 Exod 16:2-3

Numbers 11:2²When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:7 Jas 5:16 Num 16:45-48 1 John 2:1-2 1 John 5:16 Acts 8:24 Amos 7:2-6 Deut 9:19-20 Exod 32:10-14 Exod 32:31-32

Numbers 11:3³So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 9:22

Numbers 11:4⁴Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:6 Exod 12:38 Ps 106:14 Ps 78:18-20 1 Cor 15:33 Lev 24:10-11 Neh 13:3 Rom 13:14

Numbers 11:5⁵We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:3 Phil 3:19 Ps 17:14

Numbers 11:6⁶But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:5 2 Sam 13:4

Numbers 11:7⁷(Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:31 Gen 2:12 Exod 16:14-15 1 Cor 1:23-24 Rev 2:17

Numbers 11:8⁸And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:31 Exod 16:16-18 Exod 16:23 John 6:27 John 6:33-58

Numbers 11:9⁹And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:13-14 Deut 32:2 Ps 105:40 Ps 78:23-25

Numbers 11:10¹⁰Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:21 Deut 32:22 Isa 5:25 Jer 17:4 Mark 10:14 Mark 3:5 Num 11:1 Num 12:3 Num 14:1-2 Num 16:27

Numbers 11:11¹¹And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:12 Exod 5:22 2 Cor 11:28 Exod 17:4 Jer 15:10 Jer 15:18 Jer 20:14-18 Jer 20:7-9 Job 10:2 Lam 3:39-40

Numbers 11:12¹²Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to their fathers?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 40:11 Isa 49:23 1 Thess 2:7 Exod 13:5 Gen 26:3 Gen 50:24 Ezek 34:23 Gal 4:19 Gen 22:16-17 Isa 49:15

Numbers 11:13¹³From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 8:4 Matt 15:33 John 6:5-9 Mark 9:23

Numbers 11:14¹⁴I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 18:18 Deut 1:9-12 2 Cor 2:16 Zech 6:13 Isa 9:6 Ps 89:19

Numbers 11:15¹⁵But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jonah 4:3 1 Kgs 19:4 Jer 20:18 Jonah 4:8-9 Phil 1:20-24 Exod 32:32 Zeph 3:15 Jas 1:4 Jer 15:18 Job 3:20-22

Numbers 11:16¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 24:1 Exod 24:9 Deut 1:15 Deut 16:18 Gen 46:27 Luke 10:1 Luke 10:17 Exod 4:29 Ezek 8:11 Deut 31:28

Numbers 11:17¹⁷Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the Spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 10:6 Num 11:25 1 Cor 12:4-11 1 Cor 2:12 2 Kgs 2:9 2 Kgs 2:15 Joel 2:28 Isa 59:20-21 Rom 8:9 1 Thess 4:8

Numbers 11:18¹⁸“And say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 19:10 Acts 7:39 Exod 16:3-7 Num 11:1 Exod 19:15 Gen 35:2 Josh 7:13 Judg 21:2 Num 11:4-6 Num 14:2-3

Numbers 11:19¹⁹You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 11:20²⁰but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:15 Num 21:5 Ps 78:27-30 1 Sam 10:19 1 Sam 2:30 1 Thess 4:8 2 Sam 12:10 Acts 13:41 Exod 16:13 Exod 16:8

Numbers 11:21²¹Moses said, “The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 12:37 Num 1:46 Exod 38:26 Gen 12:2 Num 2:32

Numbers 11:22²²Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 7:2 Matt 15:33 John 6:6-7 John 6:9 Luke 1:18 Luke 1:34 Mark 6:37 Mark 8:4

Numbers 11:23²³And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord ’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 18:14 Isa 50:2 Isa 59:1 Luke 1:37 Matt 19:26 Ezek 12:25 Num 23:19 Ezek 24:14 Matt 24:35 Mic 2:7

Numbers 11:24²⁴So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 11:16 Num 11:26

Numbers 11:25²⁵And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 11:17 Joel 2:28-29 1 Cor 14:1-3 1 Sam 10:10 2 Pet 1:21 Num 12:5 1 Sam 10:5-6 1 Sam 19:20-24 2 Kgs 2:15 Acts 2:17-18

Numbers 11:26²⁶But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the Spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 36:5 1 Sam 10:22 1 Sam 20:26 Exod 3:11 Exod 4:13-14 Jer 1:6

Numbers 11:27²⁷And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 11:28²⁸Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 9:49-50 John 3:26 Mark 9:38-40 Josh 1:1 Exod 17:9 Exod 33:11

Numbers 11:29²⁹Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord ’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:5 Jas 4:5 Jas 5:9 Luke 10:2 Matt 9:37-38 Jas 3:14-15 Phil 1:15-18 Phil 2:3 1 Cor 3:21 1 Pet 2:1

Numbers 11:30³⁰Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 11:31³¹Now a wind went out from the Lord and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:13 Ps 105:40 Ps 78:26-29 Exod 10:13 Exod 10:19 Exod 15:10 Ps 135:7

Numbers 11:32³²And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 45:11 Exod 16:36

Numbers 11:33³³But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:30-31 Ps 106:14-15 Num 16:49 Num 25:9 Deut 28:27

Numbers 11:34³⁴So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 9:22 1 Cor 10:6 Num 33:16

Numbers 11:35³⁵The people traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 33:17 Num 12:16 Deut 1:1